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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
Appreciation
Joyfulness
Gratitude
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Married
Amazement
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Taking
Thankfulness
Love
Cheerfulness
Life
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World
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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.
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Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.
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