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IF YOU HAVE NOT YET GOTTEN INTO MARY OLIVER POETRY I BEG YOU! her poetry encapsulates a deeply maternal and spiritual presence i think everyone could benefit from
May 25, 2025
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Probably my favourite poem of all time and hearing her recite it is magical.
Feb 21, 2024
Jan 27, 2025
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the best, most human piece of writing to ever exist. it is my belief every person to walk the earth needs to read this. it is a gift.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Jul 1, 2024
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i feel like we are so conditioned to take the easiest route, the most optimal or most operational to the point that we forget doing things is about LEARNING to do things and idk if it’s just me but. learning is lowkey awesome and underrated. so. get consumed by something. get inspired by people. and do something. learn something fully!!!
May 25, 2025
i have learned that, felt in its deepest moments—love exists loudest when we give it permission to evade us. within that evasion, an admiration, an appreciation—a feeling of true, honest, vulnerable, raw love—emerges.
maybe this is why we love people the most when we are separated.
maybe that’s why we love those most in a moment of grief.
maybe that’s why we love our children and inner child the most when they grow up.
but when we prevent it—when we prevent ourselves from loss we not only prevent ourselves from finding love but from love finding us.
just some thoughts
May 26, 2025