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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.

Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
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Maple Heights
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
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How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light
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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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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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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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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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All eternity is in the moment.
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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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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...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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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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