“Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
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Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
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“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us...”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
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“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
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