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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
Arms
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Taking
Thankfulness
Love
Cheerfulness
Life
Wedding
World
Cheer
Bridegroom
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Joyfulness
Gratitude
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Amazement
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
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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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I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet I just get up and write.
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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .
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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
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