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Mary Oliver Inspirational Quotes (165)

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And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?
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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere I finally just stop and write.
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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
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A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing
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Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
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You must not ever stop being whimsical.
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
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So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
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It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
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When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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