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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.
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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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?
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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
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Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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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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I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.
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It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
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There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.
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I know many lives worth living.
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It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
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And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.
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