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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
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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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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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
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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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... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
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And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
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Poetry is a river many voices travel in it poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless each arrives in an historical context almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
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I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
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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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Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.
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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
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Every word is a messenger. Some have wings some are filled with fire some are filled with death.
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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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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
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