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You must not ever stop being whimsical.

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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Ever
Must
Whimsy
Whimsical
Healing

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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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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
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Every word is a messenger. Some have wings some are filled with fire some are filled with death.
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The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things
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And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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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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It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
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When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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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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The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
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My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast there the blue plums.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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