republicofdespair

Mary Oliver, from "Dogfish" in New and Selected Poems

Mary Oliver, from “There you were, and it was like spring”, Red Bird

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

— Mary Oliver, from The Gardener (via lunamonchtuna)

— Mary Oliver, from The Gardener (via lunamonchtuna)

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE 魔女の宅急便 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

Orfayo

mary oliver, from the deer

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Poetry of Rilke; “The Book of Hours”

— Mary Oliver, North Country

— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Lavinia Dickinson written c. March 1862 

Mary Oliver, “A Voice from I Don’t Know Where”, Felicity

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Then God will recompensate you with what is befitting to your heart.