In creative work — creative work of all kinds — those who a… - Mary Oliver

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In creative work — creative work of all kinds — those who are the world's working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward.

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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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What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

And who do you
think you are sauntering along
five feet up in the air, the ocean a blue fire
around your ankles, the sun
on your face on your shoulders its golden mouth whispering
(so it seems) you! you! you!

In creative work — creative work of all kinds — those who are the world's working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward. - Mary Oliver

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