Мэри Оливер цитаты

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„Послушайте. Вы еле дышите и называете это жизнью?“

„Чтобы жить в этом мире, вы должны уметь делать три вещи: любить то, что смертно; держать его против своих костей, зная, что от этого зависит твоя собственная жизнь; и когда придет время отпустить, отпустить.“

“I don't know what God is.
I don't know what death is. But I believe they have between them
some fervent and necessary arrangement.”

“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.”

“Among the swans there is none called the least,
 or the greatest.”

“then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that
and the years before that
you were not.”

“Am I not among the early risers
and the long-distance walkers? Have I not stood, amazed, as I consider
the perfection of the morning star
above the peaks of the houses, and the crowns of the trees
blue in the first light?
Do I not see how the trees tremble, as though
sheets of water flowed over them
though it is only wind, that common thing,
free to everyone, and everything?”

“What countries, what visitations,
what pomp
would satisfy me as thoroughly as Blackwater Woods
on a sun-filled morning, or, equally, in the rain?”

“Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in
every motion of my body there was a delicious ease,
and in every motion of the green earth there was
a hint of paradise,
and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.”