Tag: Mary Oliver
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Mary Oliver
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I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn’t think of it as a career. I didn’t even think of it as a profession… It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
Mary Oliver
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In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
Mary Oliver
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
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I like books that are fat and full.
Mary Oliver
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Poetry is meant to be heard.
Mary Oliver
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I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and… almost involuntary in my life.
Mary Oliver
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
Mary Oliver
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I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.
Mary Oliver
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.
Mary Oliver