Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings Quotes

How perfect to be aboard a ship withmaybe a hundred years still in my pocket.But it's late, for all of us, and in truth the only ship there isis the ship we are all onburning the world as we go.

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real

The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously, his deep findings.While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.