And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?
- Mary Oliver
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it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this... It’s morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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