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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
Soon
Call
Dies
Chance
Comes
Rainy
Thing
Someday

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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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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.
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I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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