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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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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
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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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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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Every word is a messenger. Some have wings some are filled with fire some are filled with death.
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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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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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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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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
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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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A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.
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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
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