“Over and over in the butterfly we see the idea of transcendence. In the forest we see not the inert but the aspiring. In water that departs forever and forever returns, we experience eternity.”
More from Mary Oliver
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.”
“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of…”
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls…”
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles…”