Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
Mary OliverI have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Mary OliverYou 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 OliverDon'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 OliverThe sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moonโs perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon.
Mary Oliver