Mary Oliver shared this observation in her poem, In Blackwater Woods, which is included in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, American Primitive:
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold itagainst your bones knowing
From In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
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