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“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
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