Dream Work

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Highlights
- I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while. (Location 156)
- there is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted (Location 209)
- toward paradise falling, (Location 240)
- I believed in the world. Oh, I wanted to be easy in the peopled kingdoms, to take my place there, but there was none that I could find shaped like me. (Location 251)
- whatever the name of the catastrophe, it is never the opposite of love. (Location 366)
- What I mean is, I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on, which was: to go back. (Location 493)
title: “Dream Work”
author: “Mary Oliver”
url: ""
date: 2023-12-19
source: kindle
tags: media/books
Dream Work

Metadata
Highlights
- I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while. (Location 156)
- there is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted (Location 209)
- toward paradise falling, (Location 240)
- I believed in the world. Oh, I wanted to be easy in the peopled kingdoms, to take my place there, but there was none that I could find shaped like me. (Location 251)
- whatever the name of the catastrophe, it is never the opposite of love. (Location 366)
- What I mean is, I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on, which was: to go back. (Location 493)
New highlights added January 1, 2024 at 11:37 PM
- But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice, which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save. (Location 693)