#upstream mary oliver

[lyri-c]

pinning it to my heart, always remembering to spiral upwards with the pull of these words and keeping dear mother, mary oliver in heart, always

[shewalksinbeautylikethenight13]

“You must not ever stop being whimsical” Mary Oliver, Upstream

[genetarchaic]

Mary Oliver, Upstream

[thelogicofthetrance]

“I don't mean it's easy or assured; there are the stubborn stumps of shame, grief that remains unsolvable after all the years, a bag of stones that goes with one wherever one goes and however the hour may call for dancing and for light feet.”

Mary Oliver, Upstream

[temptresstrepidation]

"Attention is the beginning of devotion."

- Upstream Selected Essays by Mary Oliver.

[amurder-ofcrows]

sometimes? people grow deeply attached to mary oliver's essay collection upstream? to cope?

[scenteddinosaurparadise]

...the poem is a temple—or a green field—a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing—an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness—wonderful as that part of it is.

Upstream

Mary Oliver

[temptresstrepidation]

"Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn't choose them, I don't fault them, but it took time to reject them."

- Upstream Selected Essays by Mary Oliver.