"You never know / What opportunity /..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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“One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.”
“At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.”
“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”