Here is an amazement — once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth … - Mary Oliver

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Here is an amazement — once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.

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About Mary Oliver

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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Alternative Names: Mary Jane Oliver
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