Quote by Mary Oliver: "I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'..."

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

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“Things take the time they take. Don't worry.”

“I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.”

“I'd rather write about polar bears than people.”

“Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.”

“Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”

“Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.”

“When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.”

“Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.”

“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”