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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.

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
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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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What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
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Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
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I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
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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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I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
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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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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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I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.
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Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.
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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. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
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I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.
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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.
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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.
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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