The Truro Bear and Other Adventures Quotes

“Listen, whatever it is you try
to do with your life, nothing will ever dazzle you
like the dreams of your body,

its spirit
longing to fly while the dead-weight bones
toss their dark mane and hurry
back into the fields of glittering fire

where everything,
even the great whale,
throbs with song.”
― Mary Oliver, The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

“Have you noticed?
Where so many millions of powerful bawling beasts
lay down on the earth and died
it's hard to tell now
what's bone, and what merely
was once.”
― Mary Oliver, The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays