A review by daiinty
Blue Iris by Mary Oliver

5.0

“Understand from the first this certainty. Butterflies don’t write books, neither do lilies or violets. Which doesn’t mean they don’t know, in their own way, what they are. That they don’t know they are alive—that they don’t feel, that action upon which all consciousness sits, lightly or heavily. Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vainglory is the bane of us, the humans.”

such a great read for a sunny spring afternoon. i’m definitely going to be on the lookout for more of mary oliver’s poetry.