Tag: Mary Oliver
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I went to India and was quite taken with it. There’s a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
Mary Oliver
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Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
Mary Oliver
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Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.
Mary Oliver
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver
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My parents didn’t care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
Mary Oliver
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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
Mary Oliver
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I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.
Mary Oliver
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I always feel that whatever isn’t necessary shouldn’t be in a poem.
Mary Oliver
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I’m going to die one day. I know it’s coming for me, too. I’ll be a mountain, I’ll be a stone on the beach. I’ll be nourishment.
Mary Oliver
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One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
Mary Oliver