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Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

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
Life
Glorious
Wild
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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.
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