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Mary Oliver
“Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you

for everything.”
Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver
“A lifetime isn’t long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.

Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.”
Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem

Mary Oliver
“After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.”
Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver
“Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.”
Mary Oliver, Felicity

Richard Siken
“Here is my hand, my heart, my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated cities at the center of me, and here is the center of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we can drink from, but I can't go through with it. I just don't want to die anymore.”
Richard Siken, Crush

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