To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.Mary Oliver
What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places
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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.
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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.
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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.
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