A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, bu… - Mary Oliver

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A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them

Mary Oliver

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Mary Jane Oliver (10 September 1935 – 17 January 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. “Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?

What I know I could put into a pack
as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it
on one shoulder,

important and honorable, but so small!
While everything else continues, unexplained

and unexplainable.

I don’t want to lose a single thread
from the intricate brocade of this happiness
.I want to remember everything.

A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws whic… - Mary Oliver

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