FISHING WITHOUT A LICENSE...

“When it over, I want to say:

all my life I was a bride married to amazement. 

I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. 

When it's over, I don't want to wonder

 if I have made of my life something particular,and real. 

I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, 

or full of argument. 

 I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. 

~

Mary Oliver