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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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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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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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The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
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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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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
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And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.
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What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
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Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
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...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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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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You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.
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Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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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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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
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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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The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
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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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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
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