Body Quotes by Mary Oliver

17 Body quotes by Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver’s love of the natural world extends to the human form, and these seventeen verses capture her gentle, observant style. Expect vivid, grounded images that make the body feel as alive as the landscapes she describes.

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Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

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I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the…

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You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

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Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

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We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same…

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I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my…

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Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.…

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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the…

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from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which…

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“As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious and full of detail: it wants to polish itself; it wants…

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How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready…

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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long…

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When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching…

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On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the…

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When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage…

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I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her…

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Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you.…

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

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“All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers. • To understand many things you must reach out of your own condition.”

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“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few…

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“First Snow The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty…

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“What can I say that I have not said before? So I’ll say it again. The leaf has a song in it. Stone is…

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The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

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There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow…

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