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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
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.
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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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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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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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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?
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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.
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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?
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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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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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