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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. - Mary Oliver
" "Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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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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I did not come into this world
to be comforted.
I came, like red bird, to sing.
But I’m not red bird, with his head-mop of flame
and the red triangle of his mouth
full of tongue and whistles,
but a woman whose love has vanished,
who thinks now, too much, of roots
and the dark places
where everything is simply holding on.
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