“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

"In Blackwater Woods"
American Primitive (1983)
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

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