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AS FOR MYSELF I SWUNG THE DOOR OPEN AND THERE WAS THE WORDLESS SINGING WORLD AND I RAN FOR MY LIFE

MARY OLIVER YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO MEEEEEEEEE

have you ever tried to enter the long black branches

"listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?"

stars

"what can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? listen, listen, i'm forever saying. listen to the river, to the hawk, to the hoof, to the mockingbird, to the jack-in-the-pulpit-"

little dog's rhapsody in the night (percy three)

"tell me you love me, he says. / tell me again. / could there be a sweeter arrangement? over and over he gets to ask it. / i get to tell."

sobbing in hands...

lead

"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."

circle

"i am so happy to be alive in this world i would like to live forever, but i am content not to. seeing what i have seen has filled me; believing what i believe has filled me."

work, sometimes

"as for myself, i swung the door open. and there was the wordless, singing world. and i ran for my life."

sobbing...

north country

"you listen and you know you could live a better life than you do, be softer, kinder. and maybe this year you will be able to do it."

right from the start...mary oliver...i love you 😔💗