Mary Oliver, poet of the rugged soul, champion of kindness, lover of the world’s broken beauty. 1935-2019.
I wanted
The past to go away, I wanted
To leave it, like another country…And nobody gets out of it, having to
Swim through the fires to stay in
This world.
— Mary Oliver
Stony Soil Vermont 
Perfect.
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Thanks for the tribute to Mary Oliver, and thank you for embodying some of her qualities in your writing
That’s extremely nice of you to say this — thank you!
Ah…Mary Oliver. A rare poetic beauty. Her voice will be missed.
Thank goodness she was so prolific. What a writer.