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Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.
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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I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
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A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.
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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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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
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Every word is a messenger. Some have wings some are filled with fire some are filled with death.
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He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
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And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real
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We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.
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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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I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet I just get up and write.
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
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...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.
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