I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only t… - Mary Oliver

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I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

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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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the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

And now you'll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won't be false, and they won't be true
but they'll be real

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world. - Mary Oliver

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