Quote of the Day

6.

 

I mention them now,

I will not mention them again.

It is not lack of love

nor lack of sorrow. 

But the iron thing they carried, I will not carry.

 

I give them--one, two, three, four--the kiss of courtesy,

of sweet thanks,

of anger, of good luck in the deep earth.

May they sleep well.  May they soften. 

 

But I will not give them the kiss of complicity.

I will not give them the responsibility for my life. 

 

-- Mary Oliver, "Flare"