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Discover a daily ritual of presence and poetry with this guided journal featuring 365 quotation prompts, each a line from Mary Oliver's most beloved poems. Every entry contains the space for five years of reflections--inviting you watch yourself evolve as you slow down, look closely, and find inspiration in the everyday. Sample quotes include:
- Most things that are important, have you noticed, lack a certain neatness.
- After excitement we are so restful. When the thumb of fear lifts, we are so alive.
- I didn't behave like anything you had ever imagined.
Whether you're beginning your morning routine, deepening your journaling practice, or gifting a moment of pause to someone you love, Begin with Wonder offers a tender, grounding companion of wise words and poetic reflections.
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver (1935–2019), one of the most popular and widely honored poets in the U.S., was the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, she received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive in 1984. Oliver also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. She lived most of her life in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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