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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

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
Enter
Neither
Conscious
Walks
Work
Promenade
Strolling
Arena
Unconscious

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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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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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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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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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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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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.
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Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?
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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
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The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward it can give gifts or withhold all it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.
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All eternity is in the moment.
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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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When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.
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