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And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
Novelist
Poet
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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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 feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
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Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.
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Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
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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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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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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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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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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere I finally just stop and write.
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What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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My work is loving the world.
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