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A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the

A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .

Mary Oliver
Dog, Rain, Law
Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.49, Penguin

And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

Mary Oliver
Letting Go, Rain, Want
Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?

Mary Oliver
Beautiful, Rain, Fall
Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.236, Beacon Press

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