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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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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
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A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
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So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
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...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
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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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Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
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And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.
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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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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
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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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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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