Ariel

“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”
― Mary Oliver

“Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less

kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle

in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for–
to look, to listen,

to lose myself
inside this soft world

(from, 'Mindful')”
― Mary Oliver

“How shall I touch you unless it is everywhere?”
― Mary Oliver, American Primitive

“Let me keep my mind on what matters,

which is my work,

which is mostly standing still
and learning to be
 astonished.

(from "The Messenger")”
― Mary Oliver