To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
― Mary Oliver
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
― Mary Oliver
microcosm [mahy-kruh-koz-uh m]
noun
1. a little world;
2. human beings, humanity, society, or the like, viewed as an epitome or miniature of the world or universe.