And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to eve… - Mary Oliver

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And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?

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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That God had a plan, I do not doubt.

But what if His plan was, that we would do better?

If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

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. Yes indeed.

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