No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't kno… - Mary Oliver

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No, I'd never been to this country
before. No, I didn't know where the roads
would lead me. No, I didn't intend to
turn back.

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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to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go

I want to sit down on the sand and look around and get dreamy; I want to see what spirits are peeking out of the faces of the roses.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back. - Mary Oliver

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