"What is it you plan to do with your one wild & precious life?"

Coco's Lost Toy                    7/27/11                       Jean Stimmell  ©2011 

The poet, Mary Oliver, asks:

"What is it you plan to do 

with your one wild and precious life?" 

Then she answers:

"You do not have to be good. 

You do not have to walk on your knees 

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. 

You only have to let the soft animal of your body 

love what it loves." – Mary Oliver

Quotes taken from her book, click below:

  

New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1