It is no exaggeration to say that Mary Oliver ... questions: “Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with ...

Throughout all of this, I was constantly reminded of HBS’ Portrait Project, which asks graduating students to answer a question posed by Mary Oliver’s poem, The Summer Day - “Tell me, what is it you ...

When the poet Mary Oliver died last week at the age ... Yet I saw my peers quote from “The Summer Day,” which ends, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious ...

“Mary Oliver is saving my life ... probably Oliver’s most famous poem, as an epigraph to her popular memoir, “Wild”: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary ... Me Up,” the room breaks into applause the moment Oliver reads the title of her first poem. “Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine ...

Mary Oliver was a poet who had Greatest Hits ... graduations—that her best lines, such as “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?,” ...

I’m often reminded of my favorite quote by the poet Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.” So, I’ve decided that its time for a new chapter.

"What attracted me ... you dive into it, [poetry] really invokes intersection and dreaming and a greater capacity for thought. Perhaps that is the reason I love Mary so much." When it comes to ...