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4.48 AVERAGE
4.48 AVERAGE
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so I’m not really a poetry person but this was such a lovely read, started and ended just about every day for the past two weeks reading a handful of poems and found myself screenshotting too many of them to read again later aside- how have I heard the wild and precious life line SO many times but never the broader to context of the poem??
i knew i would love this collection as HALF of my pinned poems on pinterest are from miss oliver herself, however i had NOT realized id fall in love with the author in the process. mary oliver writes better than anyone i’ve ever read on the weight of being witnessed and understood, and how sacred the act of paying attention is. every poem of hers is somehow both godly and a praise to the mundane. if devotion is the highest sacrament one can take, this book fully heeds it, holding its chin tilted at once towards life and death, wearing its name gorgeously. it is truly a book to enter a season of gratitude and after reading it, one (me) should try and do so more often (!!!)
Mary Oliver has such a way with words. You can feel the feeling in them, in the way she sees the world and speaks it as it is. She has such a way of putting things into perspective. When I read Mary Oliver, I always find myself pondering my values and my wishes for the world. Her word provide such a beautiful framework for introspection. What a privilege it is to be able to read from Mary Oliver
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