“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with
your one wild and precious life ?”

Mary Jane Oliver
(10 Sept 1935 – 17 Jan 2019)

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When I am among the trees,
..
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

"When I Am Among the Trees"

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📷View of a Copse,c.1809

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Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work

"Messenger"
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🖼️Old Boots: Janette Hayhoe: Koyman Galleries

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What moth-like emotions morph into when you're in a Do you stand mute in awe of the confluence of science & song,of pragmatic details & how they aren't mutually exclusive?On we celebrate a

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We all can agree to the fact that I can't draw her hair 😍 but yeah I tried ajdjs + old art ✌🏻
Base work belongs to Asagiri and Harukawa sensei!!!

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I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall—
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.

—#MaryOliver

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Female snowy owl inspired by a dream & Mary Oliver’s ‘White Owl Flies into & out of the Field’

‘like a little lighthouse,
in the blue shadows-
... maybe death isn’t darkness after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us’

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“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not ever give anyone else the responsibility for your life” RIP 🔥

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Some fan art I painted based on ‘School’ one of ‘s poems from her book ‘Dog Songs’ 💔❤️

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“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, Wild Geese

Painting: Love in a Desert II, 2005.

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Wishing my favourite poet Mary Oliver a happy 82nd birthday with my illustration of her dog poem, 'School'

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