#devotions by mary oliver

[knivcs]

"Do Stones Feel?" by Mary Oliver, from Devotions

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "Six Recognitions of the Lord," featured in Devotions: Poems

[leonardospoetry]

"Attention is the beginning of devotion."

Mary Oliver

[flowerytale]

Mary Oliver, from "October", Devotions

[joytri]

Now that I'm free to be myself, who am I?

Mary Oliver, "Blue Iris." Devotions

[petaltexturedskies]

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver, from "Don't Hesitate" in Devotions

[fatassdeclanlynch]

LEVELS OF DEVOTION

It Will Come Back by Hozier // Your Dog by Soccer Mommy //  Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers // Night in the Hills by Jenna Barton // “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night” by Mary Oliver // The Edge of You by Jenna Barton

[coffeebooksandmore]

This spring my goal is to be reading by the river as much as I possibly can ☁️☁️☁️

coffeeandbookss

[antigonick]

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees— to learn something by being nothing a little while but the rich lens of attention.

Mary Oliver, in “Entering the Kingdom”, in Devotions

[orpheuslament]

— Mary Oliver

[knivcs]

"Violets" by Mary Oliver from Devotions

[helenaredamancy]

august of another summer, and once again

the pond by mary oliver // nothing twice by wislawa szymborska // late august by margaret atwood // august by alex dimitrov // paradoxes and oxymorons by john ashbery // again august by haley mlotek //

[angelethic]

when jenny slate said “I realize I want to hear my voice and only mine. Not the voice of my voice within a cacophony of old pains. Just mine, now.” and when toni morrison said “I want to feel what I feel. What’s mine. Even if it’s not happiness, whatever that means. Because you’re all you’ve got.” and when mary oliver said

[flowerytale]

Mary Oliver, from "October", Devotions

[joytri]

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from "Don't Hesitate" in Devotions