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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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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
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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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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
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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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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
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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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He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
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I know many lives worth living.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere there are many surprises yet to come.
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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
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The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things
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Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.
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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
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I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.
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