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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
Gratitude
Bride
Married
Amazement
Arms
Brides
Taking
Thankfulness
Love
Cheerfulness
Life
Wedding
World
Cheer
Bridegroom
Appreciation
Joyfulness
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I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.
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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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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
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Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.
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What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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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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And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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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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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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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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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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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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