“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. --from WHEN DEATH COMES” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
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,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“You don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“You have broken my heart. Just as well. Now I am learning to rise above all that, learning the thin life, waking… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? While the soul, after all, is only a window, and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“There are the stubborn stumps of shame, grief that remains unsolvable after all the years, a bag of stones that goes with… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“so long as you don’t mind a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn’t have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Dogfish I wanted The past to go away, I wanted To leave it, like another country; I wanted My life to close,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“When it over, I want to say:all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers. • To understand many things you must reach out of your own condition.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“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… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“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… — mary oliver Copy Share Image
“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… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
