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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?
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
Novelist
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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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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Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
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The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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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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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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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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There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
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It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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