Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
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Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
Saved by Benji and
Grief is the honour we pay to that which is dear to us.
“To remember somebody means to put them back together and to hold them within ourselves. As everybody knows—or will come to know—people who you can’t live without die, and you keep living. But once they’re dead, they can be with us all the time.”