Mary Oliver, September 10, 1935-January 17, 2019

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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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Upstream: Selected Essays, Mary Oliver (2016)

On June 13, 2017December 12, 2025 By LaurieIn MemoirLeave a comment

I am one of those who has no trouble imagining the sentient lives of trees, of their leaves in some fashion communicating or of the massy trunks and heavy branches knowing it is I who have come, as I always come, each morning, to walk beneath them, glad to be alive and glad to be …

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