Tributes are flowing for beloved US poet Mary Oliver, who has died at the age of 83.
Oliver, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, was loved by many for the affection with which she wrote about nature, as well as the accessibility of her language.
"It mustn't be fancy. I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now, they sort of tap dance through it. I always feel that whatever isn't necessary should not be in the poem."
She was particularly beloved by , who saw in her a queer woman unafraid to speak about life, love and loss.
Fans of Oliver's work took to social media to express their sadness at her loss, with Hilary Clinton tweeting: "Thank you, Mary Oliver, for giving so many of us words to live by."
Oliver had written numerous times about death. Her partner of 40 years, photographer Molly Malone Cook, died of cancer in 2005.
"When it's over," she wrote in When Death Comes, "I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."
And, one of her most quoted lines, from 1992 poem The Summer Day: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?"
