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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
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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 don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.
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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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It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.
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Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
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Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.
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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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Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?
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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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All eternity is in the moment.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.
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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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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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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
Mary Oliver
We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
Mary Oliver
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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We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.
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Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
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Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
Mary Oliver
