Look, I want to love this world

 

Look, I want to love this world
as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get to be alive and know it…
One morning the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn’t see me — and I thought:
so this is the world.
I’m not in it.
It is beautiful.

— Mary Oliver, from “October” in “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver” (Penguin Press, October 10, 2017)

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