“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness— and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
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