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All eternity is in the moment.

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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Moments
Eternity

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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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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 are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
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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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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
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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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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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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
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Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.
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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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My work is loving the world.
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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.
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maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.
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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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What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
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