Oliver: And Bob Dylan, Too.

C.G. Jung: “The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think.”

 

Bob Dylan: “Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.”

 

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And Bob Dylan, Too

(by Mary Oliver)

 

“Anything worth thinking about is worth

   singing about.”

 

Which is why we have

songs of praise, songs of love, songs

       of sorrow.

 

Songs to the gods, who have

      so many names.

 

Songs the shepherds sing, on the

       lonely mountains, while the sheep

               are honoring the grass, by eating it.

 

The dance-songs of the bees, to tell

       where the flowers, suddenly, in the

                 morning light, have opened.

 

A chorus of many, shouting to heaven,

      or at it, or pleading.

 

Or that greatest of love affairs, a violin

      and a human body.

 

And a composer, maybe hundreds of years dead.

 

I think of Schubert, scribbling on a café

      napkin.

 

                 Thank you, thank you.