Apr 8, 2015 / Inspiration

“Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Words of inspiration from the poet Mary Oliver.

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Perhaps this might be, as American author Joan Didion phrases it, a “bankrupt morning” where you wake up, devoid of inspiration for your creative projects.

Learn more about Mary Oliver and see her complete bibliography.

Mary Oliver and Percy Photo © 2005 by Rachel Giese Brown.

Mary Oliver and Percy. (Photo © 2005 by Rachel Giese Brown.)

In honor of National Poetry Month, I’ve got some inspiration in a very short recommended read from the poet Mary Oliver. In her poem The Summer Day, she mediates on creation and attention, and in so doing, urges us to seize possibility with a beautifully simple question:

Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
—The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Listen to Mary Oliver read The Summer Day:

And now, Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

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  2. Easy and hard question at the same time .
    I think to put a Plan A then plan B incase if it doesnt work what we planed for it in our life like what do i want to study , when im gonna finish it what will i do after it . But what i dont think it could work is to plan for my emotional life

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  3. What I plan to do with my life is to live it the fullest that I possibly can! My husband, boyfriend and myself just bought a camper and plan to live abroad. We hope this will being us closer together as we find out who we are as a whole. 🙂

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