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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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Cry
Beautiful
Ideas
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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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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There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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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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This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
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Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.
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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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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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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.
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How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
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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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