And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.


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

Mary Oliver Quotes

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are...

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are...

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are...

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are...