Hill
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Sometimes in late summer
I won’t touch anything,
not the flowers,
not the blackberries brimming
in the thickets; I won’t drink
from the pond; I won’t name
the birds or the trees; I won’t
whisper my own name.
One morning
the fox came down the hill,
glittering and confident,
and didn’t see me—
and I thought:
so this is the world.
I’m not in it.
It is beautiful.
—Mary Oliver
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... to find the feeling of infinity
on the horizon line
or just over the next hill.
—Georgia O'Keeffe
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