"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

11 March 2017

Dote.


I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.  Under the trees, along the pale slopes of sand, I walk in an ascendant relationship to rapture, and with words I celebrate this rapture.  I see, and dote upon, the manifest.

Mary Oliver, from Upstream

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