You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
Mary OliverThough I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
Mary OliverThings take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
Mary OliverPoetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
Mary Oliver