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Sweeney Tom's avatar

If poetry has saints, Mary Oliver is one of the most venerable.

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Deborah Brasket's avatar

Love this, so true: And this is what I learned: that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

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