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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
Singing
Motionless
Hear
Weeds
Alone
Introvert
Almost
Roses
Sound
Foxes
Running
Weed
Become
Invisible
Dune
Rose
Unconcerned
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And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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