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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

Love, Inspirational, Life

Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.61, Beacon Press

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Mary Oliver

Love, Life, Relationship

Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Mary Oliver

Love, Inspirational, Animal

Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.14, Atlantic Monthly Press