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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.
Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
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Maple Heights
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Mary Jane Oliver
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And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.
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Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
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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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What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
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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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...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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Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.
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Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.
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And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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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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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.
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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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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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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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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
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The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
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