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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

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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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
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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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For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
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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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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.
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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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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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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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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
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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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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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Poetry is a serious business literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.
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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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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
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