Mary Oliver — “I got saved by the beauty of the world.”
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is That Funeye?
The grasshopper actually existed, and yet i was able to fit him into that poem. And the sugar he was eating was part of frosting from a portuguese lady's birthday cakenow. But even seeing that little creature come come to my plate and say, i'd like a little helping of that. All right, it somehow fascinates me. That's just personal for me,. It was missus sagora her probaor ninetieth birthday cake or something. Did she ever read the poem? Didn't she ever know? "I never advertised myself as a poet"
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