"When it over, I want to say:all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don… - Mary Oliver

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. — from WHEN DEATH COMES

When it’s over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

from Hum, Hum

Oh the house of denial has thick walls
and very small windows
and whoever lives there, little by little,
will turn to stone.

In those years I did everything I could do
and I did it in the dark — I mean, without understanding.

I ran away.
I ran away again

(from poem: Hum, Hum)

Sing, if you can sing, and if not still be
musical inside yourself.

What I know I could put into a pack
as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it
on one shoulder,

important and honorable, but so small!
While everything else continues, unexplained

and unexplainable.