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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
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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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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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
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And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real
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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet it is ours, and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.
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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.
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I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.
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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
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And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
Mary Oliver
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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And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
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All eternity is in the moment.
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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
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