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“Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, and every pond, no matter what its name is, is nameless now. Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation, whose meaning none of us will ever know. To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

Book:New and Selected Poems, Volume One

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New and Selected Poems, Volume One

This volume features a curated selection of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various stages of their career. more

Author

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is a renowned American poet, born on September 10, 1935. Her poetry is known for its profound depiction of the natural world and delicate insights into life. Oliver's style is simple and direct, which has won her a wide audience. more

“Water pump, water pump, I've got some good news for you." "What's your good nes, Dirmit girl?" "There's a teacher in the village." "He's here for you, then." "Guess what he said to me." "What did he say, what did he say?" "He said I didn't look like a peasant." "Were you pleased?" "I was pleased.”

Class Village Life Peasant

Book:Sevgili Arsız Ölüm

Source: Sevgili Arsız Ölüm

“It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.”

Class Rhetoric Promises Oratory Pollitics

Book:Red Mars

Source: Red Mars

“I propose that very high altitude exposure to the sea level adapted human be added to the list of class 2A probably carcinogens known to cause cancer in humans.”

Class Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope 2a Carcinogens

Author:Steven Magee

“The history of the transformation of myth into religion (ideology) is not separable from the history of the constitution of a corps of specialized producers of religious rites and discourses, i.e. the progress of the division of religious labour, which is itself a dimension of the progress of the division of social labour, and hence the division into classes.”