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The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
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It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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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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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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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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All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing
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Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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