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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.

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
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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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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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.
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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
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The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
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Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.
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... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
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The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things
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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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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
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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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A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
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Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
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