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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

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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Love
Deeply
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I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.
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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.
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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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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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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
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Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
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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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My work is loving the world.
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I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.
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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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So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.
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maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
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Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.
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Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere there are many surprises yet to come.
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver