The Risk-Taker

by Mary Oliver

No one yet has made a list of places where the extraordinary may happen and where it may not. Still, there are indications. Among crowds, in drawing rooms, among easements and comforts and pleasures, it is seldom seen. It likes the out-of-doors, it likes the concentrating mind. It likes solitude. It is more likely to stick to the risk-taker than the ticket-taker.

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Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was an award-winning American poet known for her hopeful and awe-inspired observations of nature. Her six sentences are excerpted from Blue Pastures.