“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
Source: Red Bird
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Mary Oliver 98
American writer 1935–2019Related quotes
Morning Has Broken, was widely popularized by the Cat Stevens version on Teaser and the Firecat (1971), but was actually written by Eleanor Farjeon in 1931. · A performance by Cat Stevens (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sSEkZ86ts
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1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”
Source: The Unquiet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
The Weight of Glory (1949)
Context: At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.
“Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.”
Morning Has Broken (1931)
Context: Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning!
Praise for them springing
Fresh from the Word!