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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays QUOTES

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays QUOTES

1 " Listen, whatever it is you try
to do with your life, nothing will ever dazzle you
like the dreams of your body,

its spirit
longing to fly while the dead-weight bones
toss their dark mane and hurry
back into the fields of glittering fire

where everything,
even the great whale,
throbs with song. "

― Mary Oliver , The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

2 " Have you noticed?
Where so many millions of powerful bawling beasts
lay down on the earth and died
it's hard to tell now
what's bone, and what merely
was once. "

― Mary Oliver , The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays