Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.
Mary OliverI wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
Mary OliverI went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.
Mary OliverWhy I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety โ best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light โ good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
Mary Oliver