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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
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
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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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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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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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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
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Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.
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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.
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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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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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I know many lives worth living.
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast there the blue plums.
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And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real
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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.
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