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I love Mary Oliver and obviously Dream work wasn't an exception. With hits such as "Wild geese" and "Dogfish" (the quote "mostly, I want to be kind" has been my motto for a while but I don't feel like I had read the whole poem before, and, to be honest, the rest of it reinforced me in believing in that...), there were many that didn't have a full emotional impact on me (not every poetry collection can be Felicity) but I still find beautiful and meaningful. These days, we need to be reminded of the beauty of this world despite its horrors, and that appreciating one is not denying the other.

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You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it’s the same old story � � �
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind.
And nobody, of course, is kind,
or mean,
for a simple reason.

And nobody gets out of it, having to
swim through the fires to stay in
this world.

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