"When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." Sing, if you can sing, and if not still be musical inside yourself. Some persons are captive to love, others would make the beloved a captive. Which one are you? Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. House of Light (1990) And yet, in this world, it is no small thing to sparkle. - Mary Oliver, who passed 3 years ago today (Sept 10, 1935 – Jan 17, 2019) ----- Mary Oliver was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She said that she once found herself walking in the woods with no pen and later hid pencils in the trees so she would never be stuck in that place again. She often carried a 3-by-5-inch hand-sewn notebook for recording impressions and phrases. Maxine Kumin called Oliver “a patroller of wetlands in the same way that Thoreau was an inspector of snowstorms.” Oliver stated that her favorite poets consisted of #WaltWhitman, #Rumi, #Hafez, #RalphWaldo Emerson, #Percy ByssheShelley and #JohnKeats. #maryoliver #maryoliverpoetry #maryoliverquotes (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY3GBAuMXjq/?utm_medium=tumblr
