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Mary Oliver — “I got saved by the beauty of the world.”

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Summer Day Is One Wild Geese

Andi: There are some of your poems. And this is on being to day, re surfacing the poetry and solace of the late mary oliver. When you wrote that poem, or when you published this book, would you have known that that was the the poem that would speak so deeply to people? Ah, this is magic of it. That poem was written as an exercise in instopped lines. Wit, an exercise in one instopped lines, period. At the end of the line, i was working with aa, a poet. Was an exercise in technique. Yes, yes. I was trying to show the variation. But my mind was completely on that

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