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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
we stay the same, or we change.
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Why do people keep asking to see God’s identity papers when the darkness opening into morning is more than enough?
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For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
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Each time it seemed to solve everything. Each time it solved a great many things but not everything. Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and thoroughly, solved everything.
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Memory: a golden bowl, or a basement without light. For which reason the nightmare comes with its painful story and says: you need to know this.
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it’s difficult to hear anything anyway, through all the traffic, and ambition.
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They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in the world that can be said against them. Sad, isn’t it, that all they can kiss is the air. Yes, yes! We are the lucky ones.
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Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
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