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All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
Novelist
Poet
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Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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All eternity is in the moment.
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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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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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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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Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
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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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It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.
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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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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
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You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.
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When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.
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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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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
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I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
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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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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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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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