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When the poet Mary Oliver died last week at the ... “Tell me, what is it you plan to do/ with your one wild and ... Oliver’s poem reminded me that though I wanted a sign from on high about ...
Cheryl Strayed used the final couplet of “The Summer Day,” probably Oliver’s most famous poem, as an epigraph to her popular memoir, “Wild”: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with ...
Mary Oliver was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who made nature and everything around you feel sacred, and she turned solitude ...
It is no exaggeration to say that Mary Oliver gave me the blueprint, the road map, for the rest of my life. By Steven Petrow Eighteen years ago, when I was 43, I drove the long and winding road ...
The late poet Mary Oliver warned against looking without ... (“Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life ... “Moccasin Flowers,” a poem by Mary Oliver.
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 ...
“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine,” she reads and we’re off with a bang. Percy (One) . Oliver follows with a lighter work, a love letter to her adorable, book-eating ...
Mary Oliver was a poet who had Greatest Hits. She knew this. It amused her, more than anything—that a sonneteer who wrote mostly about the natural world could have a back catalogue that the ...