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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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Reason
Falling
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Snow
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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing
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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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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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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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Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.
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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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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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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
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Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.
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I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
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I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.
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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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