Hello and welcome to my book blog! I am an eclectic reader of the classics in literature, religion, and natural history. Old books are like a time machine and I love the feeling of being dropped into the past as words fill me with sights and sounds, of thoughts and sensibility, of interiors, food, clothing, …
Category: Personal
Mary Oliver, September 10, 1935-January 17, 2019
When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, talking the world into my arms.When it’s over, I don’t want to wonderIf I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,Or full of argument.I don’t want …
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