Mary Oliver

When it’s over I don’t want to wonder

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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.

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Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

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Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or the cook.

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how to love this world.

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When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.

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There is only one question:

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