"You, too, can be carved anew by..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.
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“The language of the poem is the language of particulars.”
“Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?”
“Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?”
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“I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.”
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
“He says, he loves my daughter;I think so too; for never gaz'd the moonUpon the water, as he'll stand and read,As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain,I think, there is not half a kiss to choose,Who loves another best.”
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“Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.”
“Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.”
“The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.”