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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.
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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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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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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He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
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This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere I finally just stop and write.
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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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Every word is a messenger. Some have wings some are filled with fire some are filled with death.
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In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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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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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
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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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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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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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