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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.

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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Nature
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Life

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In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.
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Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
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How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light
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I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
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Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
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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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... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
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...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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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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I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.
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Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.
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Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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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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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
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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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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
Mary Oliver