Kelsie O’Leary

“The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“Could anyone figure it out, to a finality? So why spend so much time trying. You fuss, we live.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings

“Now, though, I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I Go Down To The Shore

I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall—
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems