Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and pr... - Mary Oliver
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force."
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
"Still, what I want in my lifeis to be willingto be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of factsand maybe evento float a littleabove this difficult world."
"I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing."
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."