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Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
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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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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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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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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
Mary Oliver
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 my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
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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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In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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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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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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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
Mary Oliver
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.
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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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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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