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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.

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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Morning
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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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Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.
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All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.
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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
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And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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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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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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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
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Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
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I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.
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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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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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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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Attention without feeling is only a report.
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There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
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What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
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