"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
(Mary Oliver)
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Oh thank you so much for this. Her words touched us all in so many ways, but always in our hearts.
yes, thank you for this. so many of her poems that have been posted the last couple of days bring painful recognition. I'm tearing up. A lot.
This: "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed."
Oooo, I love that. Thank you.
yes
She made me love poems.
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