Mary Oliver
“What I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled.”
“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.”
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.”
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
“I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”