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gicalabria's review
5.0
bem maluco ter terminado esse livro depois de mais de um ano. nesse tempo tive Mary como uma companheira de muitas manhãs e de todo tipo de sentimento - alguns evocados pelos poemas e outros acompanhados for eles.
Mary é a prova que acessibilidade não significa perda de qualidade, e que a vida apresenta inúmeras possibilidades de encanto. imagino que ainda vou revisitar muito as lições contidas nesses poemas, que com certeza vão adquirir novos significados ao longo dos anos. o que me resta é a curiosidade, a aptidão de manter o coração aberto para não perder a habilidade de me surpreender - com o mundo e comigo mesma.
Impossível escolher um único trecho que represente essa coletânia, então vou incluir alguns dos meus favoritos:
“though I’m not twenty/and won’t be again but ah! seventy. And still/in love with life."
"It is/your life, which is so close/to my own that I would not know/where to drop the knife of/separation. And what does this have to do/with love, except/everything?"
“It could mean something./It could mean everything./It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:/You must change your life.”
“You listen and you know/you could live a better life than you do, be/softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will/be able to do it."
"Only last week I went out among the thorns and said/to the wild roses:/deny me not,/but suffer my devotion."
"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?"
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life/I was a bride married to amazement.”
Mary é a prova que acessibilidade não significa perda de qualidade, e que a vida apresenta inúmeras possibilidades de encanto. imagino que ainda vou revisitar muito as lições contidas nesses poemas, que com certeza vão adquirir novos significados ao longo dos anos. o que me resta é a curiosidade, a aptidão de manter o coração aberto para não perder a habilidade de me surpreender - com o mundo e comigo mesma.
Impossível escolher um único trecho que represente essa coletânia, então vou incluir alguns dos meus favoritos:
“though I’m not twenty/and won’t be again but ah! seventy. And still/in love with life."
"It is/your life, which is so close/to my own that I would not know/where to drop the knife of/separation. And what does this have to do/with love, except/everything?"
“It could mean something./It could mean everything./It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:/You must change your life.”
“You listen and you know/you could live a better life than you do, be/softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will/be able to do it."
"Only last week I went out among the thorns and said/to the wild roses:/deny me not,/but suffer my devotion."
"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?"
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life/I was a bride married to amazement.”
avasbookmark's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent
jessica_stoots's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
atreegrowsinbooks's review
Read a poem a day for all of August. But, my library loan was due, so I’m DNF’ing for now. Will likely go back to finish this at some point.
brandidean's review
5.0
Based on these, I still like American Primitive and Felicity the best, but there was plenty of loveliness throughout.