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“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning -- it'll be gone."

[Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver (O Magazine, March 2011)]”
Mary Oliver

Walt Whitman
“My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words”
Walt Whitman

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

for everything.”
Mary Oliver

Walt Whitman
“What doesn’t kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren’t alive.”
Walt Whitman

W.S. Merwin
“What I remember I cannot tell
though it is there in all that I say”
W.S. Merwin, The Moon Before Morning

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