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A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
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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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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Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.
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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
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Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
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It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
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And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.
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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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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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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
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So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
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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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I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.
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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.
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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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