Learning to be Astonished by Mary Oliver
(via aperfectcommotion)
Am I no longer young,
and still not half-perfect?
Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,which is mostly standing still
and learning to be astonished.
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When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
"Mary Oliver, “When Death Comes”
