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Savannah Wright
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“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, & I will tell you mine… Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese..”
too many good lines & not enough space on Goodreads
— Aug 03, 2025 12:18PM
Tell me about despair, yours, & I will tell you mine… Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese..”
too many good lines & not enough space on Goodreads
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Savannah Wright
is on page 442 of 456
“like tissue on some vast, incredible gift.”
What a gift to be in my Mary Oliver Renaissance.
— Aug 06, 2025 03:25PM
What a gift to be in my Mary Oliver Renaissance.
Savannah Wright
is on page 292 of 456
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”
“I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world”
— Jul 25, 2025 02:52PM
I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”
“I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world”
Savannah Wright
is on page 147 of 456
“In spring there’s hope, in fall the exquisite, necessary diminishing, in winter I am sleepy as any beast in its leafy cave, but in summer there is everywhere the luminous sprawl of gifts, the hospitality of the Lord and my inadequate answers as I row my beautiful, temporary body through this water-lily world.”
— Jul 18, 2025 03:54PM
Savannah Wright
is on page 123 of 456
Attention Is the beginning of devotion
“Two or three times in my life I discovered love.
Each time it seemed to solve everything.
Each time it solved a great many things, but not everything.
Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and thoroughly, solved everything “
— Jul 15, 2025 07:57PM
“Two or three times in my life I discovered love.
Each time it seemed to solve everything.
Each time it solved a great many things, but not everything.
Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and thoroughly, solved everything “
