Donna

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Donna.

https://www.goodreads.com/ravenscraftdl

Loading...
Sarah Addison Allen
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.”
Mary Oliver

“Praying

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.”
Mary Oliver, Thirst

“The Old Poets Of China

Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.”
Mary Oliver, Why I Wake Early

“What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.”
Mary Oliver

year in books
Monica
2,904 books | 345 friends

Robert ...
303 books | 54 friends

Jeannet...
119 books | 52 friends

Karen
447 books | 54 friends

Anneliese
235 books | 171 friends

Ron Albury
39 books | 39 friends

Will
71 books | 72 friends

Kat Rob
5 books | 54 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Donna

Lists liked by Donna