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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.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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I know many lives worth living.
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And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real
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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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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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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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Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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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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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
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And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
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