it's a shame i only came to know her work after she died, but this is very much worth your time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv_4xmh_WtE here is Mary Oliver reading her poem Wild Geese
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just... what a wonderful ending and moral that the poem builds to:
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
