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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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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
Slowly
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Also
Able
Wanted
Love

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You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
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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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Poetry is a serious business literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
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... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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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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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.
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There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
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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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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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Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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