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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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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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If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
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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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maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
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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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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
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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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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere I finally just stop and write.
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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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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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You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
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Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
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Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.
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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.
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... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.
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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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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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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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