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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
Writer
Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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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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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.
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The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
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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 want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.
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Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
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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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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
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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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The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
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My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast there the blue plums.
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