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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.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
Novelist
Poet
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
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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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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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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 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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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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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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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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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.
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My work is loving the world.
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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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I know many lives worth living.
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And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real
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A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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