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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
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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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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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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... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
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I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet I just get up and write.
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
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The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
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I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
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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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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.
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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
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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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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
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