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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
Love
Cheerfulness
Life
Wedding
World
Cheer
Bridegroom
Appreciation
Joyfulness
Gratitude
Bride
Married
Amazement
Arms
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...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.
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...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.
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