New and Selected Poems: Volume Two |
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. |
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? |
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 |
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 |
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work |
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? |
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. |