Mary Oliver: Your One Wild and Precious Life

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. 

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into 

the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle 

and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what 

I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should 

I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? 

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with 

your one wild and precious life?

 

- Mary Oliver