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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
Poet
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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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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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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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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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
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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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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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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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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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All eternity is in the moment.
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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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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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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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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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I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.
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It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
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You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
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