Maryoliver Quotes

seafoam*
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April 3, 2019 3:41pm UTC

I have wrestled with the angel and I am
stained with light and I have no shame.

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seafoam*
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January 24, 2019 8:59pm UTC

If there is life after the earth-life, will you come with me? Even then?
Since we’re bound to be something, why not t o g e t h e r.
— Mary Oliver | New and Selected Poems: Volume Two

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seafoam*
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January 24, 2019 8:34pm UTC

WHEN IT’S OVER I WANT TO SAY: ALL MY LIFE I WAS A BRIDE MARRIED TO AMAZEMENT. —MARY OLIVER

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seafoam*
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July 25, 2018 12:32pm UTC

Mostly, I want to be kind.
And nobody, of course, is kind,
or mean,
for a simple reason.
And nobody gets out of it, having to
swim through the fires to stay in
this world.

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seafoam*
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April 1, 2018 9:22pm UTC

Sometimes in late summer I won’t touch anything, not the flowers, not the blackberries brimming in the thickets; I won’t drink from the pond; I won’t name the birds or the trees; I won’t whisper my own name. One morning the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn’t see me—and I thought: so this is the world. I’m not in it. It is beautiful.

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seafoam*
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November 29, 2017 4:54pm UTC

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves

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seafoam*
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July 18, 2017 8:01pm UTC

“
You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen
to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.
And anyway it’s the same old story—
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive.
Mostly, I want to be kind.
—MARY OLIVER, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.

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crimson24
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January 2, 2016 11:14pm UTC

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
(~Mary Oliver)

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*compassionate soul*
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August 31, 2014 8:00pm UTC

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

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