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Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Jessye Norman

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Jessye Norman
Age: 74 †
Born: 1945
Born: September 15
Died: 2019
Died: September 30
Opera Singer
Singer
Augusta
Georgia
Jessye Mae Norman
Kindness
Swans
Friend
Visiting
Wise
Poems
Wisdom
Mary
Reading
Prose
Book
Page
Swan
Every
Welcome
Welcoming
Pages
Oliver

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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
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A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
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I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
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I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
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My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.
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