Recently I came across a book of poetry by the immensely talented Mary Oliver. Her poems are so beautiful and timeless. Here are a few of my favorites. 

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver“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, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.”
― Mary Oliver“…there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do —
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
― Mary Oliver“Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you

for everything.”
― Mary Oliver