Every year everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side
is salvation


New and Selected Poems, Volume One (ed. Beacon Press, 2013) - ISBN: 9780807097151

Mary Oliver Quotes

Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation

Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation

Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation

Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation