Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in
every motion of my body there was a delicious ease,
and in every motion of the green earth there was
a hint of paradise,
and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.


"Am I Not Among the Early Risers" - West Wind (1997)

Mary Oliver Quotes

Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green...

Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green...

Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green...

Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green...