Thursday, February 2

Scraps of Wisdom.4

An excerpt from In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver:

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.

2 comments:

KC said...

I love Mary. Thanks for this one.

Leesa said...

Nice, I like this :)