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The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
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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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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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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...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
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Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?
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You must not ever stop being whimsical.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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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.
Mary Oliver
I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
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... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
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The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
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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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He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere I finally just stop and write.
Mary Oliver
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
It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
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