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I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below—above the vaulted
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“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.”
― Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
― Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“Just as a single rainstorm can erode the banks and change the course of a river, so can a single circumstance of a girl’s life erase who she was before.”
― Go as a River
― Go as a River
“Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you—if you allow it to be.”
― Leaving Everything Most Loved
― Leaving Everything Most Loved
“The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, "branches" since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks.”
― Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
― Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. . . . In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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This discussion group ran from September 4 to 11, 2012, to celebrate the publication of Laurie's new novel, Garment of Shadows. Feel free to browse th ...more
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