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The late great Mary Oliver’s advice for life ❣️ “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
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Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
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We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
T.S. Eliot • The Essential T.S. Eliot
As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am trying to get thinking people to be aware of the actual vibrations of life as they would listen to music.
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
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This funny-looking book introduced me to my most treasured, deeply felt poem, “Maximus to Himself,” by Charles Olson, which has since become the blueprint of my life,