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Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look! " and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.Mary Oliver
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I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think–no, you will realize–that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.Mary Oliver
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MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken. How people come, from delight or the scars of damage, to the comfort of a poem. Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look! " and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. .Mary Oliver