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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”
Mary Oliver, 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”
Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”
Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
tags: lead

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
Mary Oliver, Poetry Handbook, A

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

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