whatever the name of the catastrophe, it is never / the opposite of love. Mary Oliver, from Dream Work: Poems; “Shadows”
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austinkleon: Mary Oliver’s instructions for living a life. From her poem “Sometimes,” found in the collection Red Bird. 5.Two or three times in my life I discovered love.Each time it seemed to solve everything.Each time it solved a great many thingsbut not everything.Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, andthoroughly, solved everything. …
I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Mary Oliver, from the book …
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. …
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver: Sometimes
CLARITY AND CHAOS 