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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
Story
Stories
Anything
Love
Deeply

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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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Poetry is a serious business literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.
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My work is loving the world.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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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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A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
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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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A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .
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I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet I just get up and write.
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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
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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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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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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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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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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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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.
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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
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