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" What I know I could put into a pack
as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it
on one shoulder,

important and honorable, but so small!
While everything else continues, unexplained

and unexplainable. "

Mary Oliver , New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2


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Mary Oliver quote : What I know I could put into a pack<br />as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it<br />on one shoulder,<br /><br />important and honorable, but so small!<br />While everything else continues, unexplained<br /><br />and unexplainable.