Mary Oliver Quotes About Love
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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
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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.
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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
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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.
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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.
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
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I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
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