"On poetry: Everyone wants to know what..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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“I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.”
“We shake with joy, we shake with grief.What a time they have, these twohoused as they are in the same body.”
“Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? 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. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”