Raghav Arora

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“I Have Decided
I have decided to find myself a home in the mountains, somewhere high up where one learns to live peacefully in the cold and the silence. It’s said that in such a place certain revelations may be discovered. That what the spirit reaches for may be eventually felt, if not exactly understood. Slowly, no doubt. I’m not talking about a vacation. Of course at the same time I mean to stay exactly where I am. Are you following me?”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“I told her what I think is true—that love survives death. They won’t be okay, of course, but they will go on, and the love you poured into them will go on. That’s what I should’ve said.

But what I actually said, while crying, was, “How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet