Mary Oliver: To Live In This World

"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."

— Mary Oliver (1935 - 2019), extract from 'In Blackwater Woods'

Image by Ioann Mark Kuznietsov