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When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.
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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Invisible
Dune
Rose
Unconcerned
Singing
Motionless
Hear
Weeds
Alone
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Almost
Roses
Sound
Foxes
Running
Weed
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
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You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.
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Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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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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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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