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When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know
any of us, what happens then.
So I try not to miss anything.
I think, in my whole life, I have never missed
The full moon
or the slipper of its coming back.
Or, a kiss.
Well, yes, especially a kiss.

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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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one of which was you.

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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