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What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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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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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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I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.
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As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.
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Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.
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Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?
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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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You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.
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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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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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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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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.
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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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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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