WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:37:42 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg ache – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Oliver, Mary -- Comments at Wellesley College (20 Oct 2010) https://wist.info/oliver-mary/40797/ https://wist.info/oliver-mary/40797/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:13:38 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=40797 The universe could have been created ugly, and would have functioned. And yet there is beauty everywhere in creation. Beauty gives us an ache, to be worthy of that creation.


Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American poet
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The last phrase is frequently paraphrased, "We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it." ]]> https://wist.info/oliver-mary/40797/feed/ 0 40797