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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

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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Stand
Need
Sometimes
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Wherever
Blessed

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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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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 very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
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