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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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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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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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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
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I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
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Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.
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It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
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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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But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.
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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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Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
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Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.
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I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
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All eternity is in the moment.
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