“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

--from WHEN DEATH COMES”

—  Mary Oliver

Variant: 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.
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

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