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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
― Mary Oliver

“Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou