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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
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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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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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
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I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.
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Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
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Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
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... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.
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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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The language of the poem is the language of particulars.
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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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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And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.
Mary Oliver
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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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
Mary Oliver
We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
Mary Oliver
