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lindaixchel's review against another edition
4.0
“I wanted my past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls.”
- dogfish
- dogfish
localdisaster17's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
relaxing
fast-paced
5.0
ladybird4prez's review against another edition
A really beautiful collection with lots of meditations on nature; the personification of it, its simplicity, its complexity, its beauty, and its ultimate indifference to human life. Sometimes there’s nothing more comforting than acknowledging how small you are and how vast our world is. I think I read this at the perfect time, too. The seasonal affective disorder hits hard and I always look forward to spring. Finally getting to be out in nature reinvigorates me and I look at everything with a deeper appreciation after months of darkness and gloom. The fact that simple natural occurrences can have such an effect on me.
and what we see is the world
that cannot cherish us
but which we cherish
maliks's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.25
Such a cute and easy to follow poetry collection. I love all the nature mary oliver writes about, i love how gentle her poems feel, like a nice hug.
lafoliedujour's review against another edition
3.0
"to be understood,
to be more than pure light
that burns
where no one is—"
---
"Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart
ever close, I am as good as dead."
---
"All else is peripheral,
remote, unfelt. The connections have broken."
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"each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,
is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy."
to be more than pure light
that burns
where no one is—"
---
"Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart
ever close, I am as good as dead."
---
"All else is peripheral,
remote, unfelt. The connections have broken."
---
"each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,
is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy."
geliopoulos's review against another edition
5.0
reading mary oliver at six in the morning was decidedly Not The Move
chloenavara's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
_quinnsreads's review
emotional
relaxing
sad
4.5
"Sometimes what’s wrong does not hurt at all, but rather
shines like a new moon."
This summed up the poignant feeling I had of reading dream work. I had been sleeping on Mary Oliver for a long time. Everybody kept telling me this one is a real deal. Wish I had read it during my previous years.
shines like a new moon."
This summed up the poignant feeling I had of reading dream work. I had been sleeping on Mary Oliver for a long time. Everybody kept telling me this one is a real deal. Wish I had read it during my previous years.