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

On Being with Krista Tippett

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You Don't Know What You're Doing, but You Do What You Can Do

"I couldn't handle that material, except in three or four poems that i've done," she says. "There's a line and rage in your dreams, you have sullied and murdered and your dreams do not lie." She adds: 'What ma lusy as makes you angry is the loss of the years of your because it does leave damage'

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