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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.

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
Thinking
Dangerous
Though
Inspirational
Beautiful
Light
Improbable
Nothing
Noble
Things
Wings
Think
Afraid

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All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.
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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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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
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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.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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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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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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My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast there the blue plums.
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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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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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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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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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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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Poetry is a river many voices travel in it poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless each arrives in an historical context almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.
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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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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
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