Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task … - Mary Oliver

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Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.

Mary Oliver

Why I Wake Early · April 15, 2005 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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When I have to die, I would like to die
on a day of rain -
long rain, slow rain, the kind you think will never end.

I began to pick through the red rivers
of confusion;

I began to take apart
the deep stitches
of nightmares.

Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
that wild darkness,
that long, blue body of light.

Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by … - Mary Oliver

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