“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”
-Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver won her Pulitzer Prize in 1984, before that she became close with the late Pulitzer Prize wining author Edna Millay’s sister and spent a great deal of time at her house either running around in the spacious fields, or sorting through the late poets unpublished papers and personal effects. From there she went on to make a huge impact in the world of literature with works such as Women's Review of Books and American Primitive. Her Biography reads like a dream for any writer and it is safe to say that she lived up to her quote. Though I do not know what my life will eventually lead to, I hope that to make an impact on the field I end up in so that I can say that I “[took] the world into my arms.”
As for my current state, I try to take every opportunity in stride, and if I cannot find anything to amaze myself with I find something to dazzle me. I have lived in four different countries, each with many different cultures within them; each culture has given me different values and experiences. Each new thing I learn about a culture, or each new experience I have due to a certain place truly amazes me, it is this childlike wonder at each initial exposure that drives me to find more, and experience all that the world and her wonderful inhabitants can offer me. These breathtaking experiences have each taught me something unique and new.
I live in the hope of one day being able to put my knowledge into a venture of my own and have this venture, whatever it may be turn out well for myself and all those involved. That is the legacy I wish to create. In that form I hope to make an impact in my field. Currently I am the “bride married to amazement” finding every nook and turning over every rock in the hope of finding something worth looking for. In this stage I am discovering the alluring simplicity of beauty whilst experiencing life’s intricate thrills; soon I hope to fulfill the next half of this quote and “[take] the world into my arms” in every way possible. My legacy will be that of a wide-eyed boy who found the world, and of a fulfilled sage who dolled back out all that he acquired throughout his journey. When it’s over I want to look myself in the eye and truly say that all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms
-Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver won her Pulitzer Prize in 1984, before that she became close with the late Pulitzer Prize wining author Edna Millay’s sister and spent a great deal of time at her house either running around in the spacious fields, or sorting through the late poets unpublished papers and personal effects. From there she went on to make a huge impact in the world of literature with works such as Women's Review of Books and American Primitive. Her Biography reads like a dream for any writer and it is safe to say that she lived up to her quote. Though I do not know what my life will eventually lead to, I hope that to make an impact on the field I end up in so that I can say that I “[took] the world into my arms.”
As for my current state, I try to take every opportunity in stride, and if I cannot find anything to amaze myself with I find something to dazzle me. I have lived in four different countries, each with many different cultures within them; each culture has given me different values and experiences. Each new thing I learn about a culture, or each new experience I have due to a certain place truly amazes me, it is this childlike wonder at each initial exposure that drives me to find more, and experience all that the world and her wonderful inhabitants can offer me. These breathtaking experiences have each taught me something unique and new.
I live in the hope of one day being able to put my knowledge into a venture of my own and have this venture, whatever it may be turn out well for myself and all those involved. That is the legacy I wish to create. In that form I hope to make an impact in my field. Currently I am the “bride married to amazement” finding every nook and turning over every rock in the hope of finding something worth looking for. In this stage I am discovering the alluring simplicity of beauty whilst experiencing life’s intricate thrills; soon I hope to fulfill the next half of this quote and “[take] the world into my arms” in every way possible. My legacy will be that of a wide-eyed boy who found the world, and of a fulfilled sage who dolled back out all that he acquired throughout his journey. When it’s over I want to look myself in the eye and truly say that all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms