Mary Schmich: Farewell, Mary Oliver, a poet whose name you may not know, but whose words you most certainly do
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely
The world offers itself to your imagination,
Calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
When news of Mary Oliver's death came Thursday, those lines from her poem "Wild Geese" rose out of my memory like startled birds, and they've been fluttering around my brain ever since.
Oliver was a poet, maybe the best known and most quoted living poet
