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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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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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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
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...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.
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I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.
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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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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.
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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
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It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
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He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
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The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
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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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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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