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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
Gratitude
Glory
Worth
Saying
Something
Always

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The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
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...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.
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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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When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
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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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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
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I know many lives worth living.
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Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.
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And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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Every word is a messenger. Some have wings some are filled with fire some are filled with death.
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Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
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Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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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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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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I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.
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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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Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
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