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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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Eternity
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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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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.
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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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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.
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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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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
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There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.
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Poetry is a serious business literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.
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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
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I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet I just get up and write.
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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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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 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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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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