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Mary Oliver Quotes

Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 10, 1935

Topics

Been Recluse Apparently Considered

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

Life Path Imagination Amazing Safety

Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

Andrew Whitworth

Leadership Opportunity Walk People

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Language Supremacy Every Sentence

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.

Build Ranch Horses Raise Eventually

Love is the bond of perfection.

Love Perfection Love Is Bond

My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.

Stars Parents Want Hollywood Never

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

Coffee Happy Roses You Smell Makes

The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a time of emergency, you've got to become deliberately calm.

Fear Time Me Calm You Early

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

Language Innocence Long You Never

Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

Life Me Personal Changes

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Christiane Amanpour

People Thought Run Always Get Lives

I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.

People Lucky Mean Tell Baltimore

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