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" I believe you did not have a happy life.
I believe you were cheated.
I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery.
I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression.
I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling.
I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger.
I believe music had to bee melancholy or not at all.
I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as
your bitterness.
I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and
unassuaged.
Oh, cold and dreamless under the wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful flowers of the hillsides. "

Mary Oliver , New and Selected Poems, Volume One


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Mary Oliver quote : I believe you did not have a happy life.<br />I believe you were cheated.<br />I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery.<br />I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression.<br />I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling.<br />I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger.<br />I believe music had to bee melancholy or not at all.<br />I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as <br />your bitterness.<br />I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and <br />unassuaged.<br />Oh, cold and dreamless under the wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful flowers of the hillsides.