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Mary Oliver, from “Franz Marc’s Blue Horses”, Blue Horses

Mary Oliver, photographed by her partner Molly Malone Cook. “Helping the traveler, 1965”

Entry from Molly’s diary.
Both can be found in Our World.

Mary Oliver, from “the fourth sign of the zodiac” published in Blue Horses
your writing does not have to be good. your author’s note does not have to go on its knees for a hundred words before each chapter repenting. you only have to let the soft gremlin of your brain write what it wants.
addison reading wild geese by mary oliver would cure her
I might be. Does a prisoner always know that they are imprisoned? What is a heartbeat to someone who feels that they are already dead?

— Mary Oliver, from “Felicity.”





Words from “In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver





























- I've been blossoming alone over you
Mitski, “Pink in the Night” / jhart / Yahoo Sports / Billie Eilish, “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” / X / Delaware Online / Sports Illustrated College / Hanif Abdurraqib, “In This Scene” / ESPN / New York Post / jalenbrunson1 / New York Post / jhart / Yahoo Sports / New York Post / New York Magazine / Getty / Getty / “Like a Kennedy” by @yaerine / Taylor Swift, “Gold Rush” / Mary Oliver, “Thirst” / Athlon Sports
inspired by this heartwrenching (yet lovely) web weave by @novaknicks
tried to source all the images but the ones that aren’t linked are probably ones I saw on @abruiseblue @comebckszn @cazluvsu @simplechange blogs so thank y’all !! and credit to thee sports rpf bible @its-always-silly-season for the poems and general lore im not even a nyk fan but I do have a soft spot in my heart for dubs legend donte divincenzo which by extension includes his bfs now lol. wishing him well in minny or wherever he ends up ! 💌

Mary Oliver, in “The Lost Children” from American primitive: poems 1983.
[ID: death has no country. Love has no name.]
“—how wonderful to be who I am, made out of earth and water, my own thoughts, my own fingerprints— all that glorious, temporary stuff.”
— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “On Meditating, Sort Of”, in Blue Horses
hey man i see ur busy walking on your knees a hundred miles through the desert but if you’re bored with that me and my friends were thinking about getting together and letting the soft animals of our bodies love what they love. lmk

Mary Oliver, "A Voice from I Don’t Know Where", Felicity