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'When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.' ❤️ 'I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.' ... Her muses were owls and butterflies, frogs and geese, the changes of the seasons, the sun and the stars... a deep sense of being in the world as a spiritual experience.... Thank you Mary Oliver, I cherish your beautiful, inspiring poetry 🌿 'Canada Geese, Marazion marshes' inspired by a walk with my son and the poem 'Wild Geese' - 'You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things.'  Canada geese over Marazion Marshes, Cornwall 'On Being' Studios - Mary Oliver reads her poems  Gerryco23 - Wordpress blog on Mary - Mary Oliver, 1935-2019: 'one wild and precious life'
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