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" Believe me these are not just words talking.
This is my life, thinking of the darkness to follow.

— Mary Oliver, from “Sand Dabs, Three,” West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1997) "

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Mary Oliver quote : Believe me these are not just words talking.<br />This is my life, thinking of the darkness to follow.<br /><br />— Mary Oliver, from “Sand Dabs, Three,” <i>West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems</i> (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)