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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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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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The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things
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A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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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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...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.
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Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
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What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.
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