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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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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
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I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?
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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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We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere there are many surprises yet to come.
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Poetry is a river many voices travel in it poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless each arrives in an historical context almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.
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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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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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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.
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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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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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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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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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We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.
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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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