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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
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World
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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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It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
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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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The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
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I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
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How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light
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Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.
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Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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