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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.
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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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Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
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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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The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
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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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Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.
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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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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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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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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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maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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