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Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
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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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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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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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
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The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.
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There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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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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