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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
Eternity
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I know many lives worth living.
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Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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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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Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
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The language of the poem is the language of particulars.
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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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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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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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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
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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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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
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What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
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You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
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I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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