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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
Lucky
Morning
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
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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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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.
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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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What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.
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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
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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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With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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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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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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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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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
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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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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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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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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.
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maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
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We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
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