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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.
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
Still
Brewing
Ideas
Rash
Come
Surprises
Many
Somewhere
Surprise
Doubt
Wonderful
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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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I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
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My work is loving the world.
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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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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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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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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
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...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.
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But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.
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I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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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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You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
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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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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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