5One or two things are all you needto travel over the blue pond, over the deeproughage of the trees and through the stiffflowers of lightning --- some deepmemory of pleasure, some cuttingknowledge of pain.6But to lift the hoof!For that you needan idea.7For years and years I struggledjust to love my life. And thenthe butterflyrose, weightless, in the wind."Don't love your lifetoo much," it said,and vanishedinto the world.
-Mary Oliver
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