American - Poet | September 10, 1935 -
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
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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.
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
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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.
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If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
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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.
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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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You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.
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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.
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I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.
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