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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.

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
Glory
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Gratitude

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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
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And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
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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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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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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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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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My work is loving the world.
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
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He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
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...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
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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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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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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.
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