Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.
Heather Baldock
Love
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“Wasn’t your friendship always as beautiful as a flame?”
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Do stones feel? Do they love their life? Or does their patience drown out everything
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Are the clouds glad to unburden their bundles of rain?
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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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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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it sounds like a body falling apart.