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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
Sometimes
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Wherever
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Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.
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Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
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In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
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Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?
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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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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere I finally just stop and write.
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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
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He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
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For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
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The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward it can give gifts or withhold all it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.
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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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The language of the poem is the language of particulars.
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The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
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