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Mary Oliver on Living

  • Tuula Rasen
  • Jul 19
  • 1 min read

"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
Image by Ioann Mark Kuznietsov

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