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Here are just a few of my favorite poems and quotes. I'll be updating this periodically!
In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
from The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Witness by Denise Levertov
Sometimes the mountain
is hidden from me in veils of clouds, sometimes
I am hidden from the mountain
in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue
when I forget or refuse to go
down to the shore or few yards
up the road, on a clear day,
to reconfirm that witnessing presence.
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
Let nothing come between you and the light
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees
All good things are wild and free
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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