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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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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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