Have you ever seen
Anything
in your life
more wonderful
than the way the sun
every evening
relaxed and easy
floats towards the horizon
and into the clouds or the hills
or the rumbled sea
and is gone –
and how it slides again
out of the blackness every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower
streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance –
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love
do you think that there is anywhere, in any language
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure
that fills you,
as the sun,
reaches out and warms you
as you stand there,
empty-handed –
or have you too
turned from this world
or have you too
gone crazy for power,
for things?
Mary Oliver
Quote extracted from: Mary Oliver – New and Selected Poems
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