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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.

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
Moose
Face
Faces
Jesus

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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?
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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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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
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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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So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.
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We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
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...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.
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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
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And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.
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maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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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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