Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. September 10, 1935
Birthday: September 10
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
- Mary Oliver
source: Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)
topic: Home, Islands, Risk, Magellan
