In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myse… - Mary Oliver

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In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.

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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it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Do you think of them as decoration?

Think again.

Here are maples, flashing.
And here are the oaks, holding on all winter
to their dry leaves.
And here are the pines, that will never fail,
until death, the instructions to be green.

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

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