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Love Quotes by Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver sees love as a twin gift—one that warms us and one that makes us ask questions. She writes that love can be a deep friendship where two people know everything about each other. She also notes that loving a story or a dog can fill life with joy.

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Things take the time they take. Don't worry.

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You must not ever stop being whimsical.

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My work is loving the world.

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There is only one question: / how to love this world.

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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began…

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Attention without feeling--is only a report.

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Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

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Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

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A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

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And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

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Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly

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What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.

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Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.

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“Listen, whatever you see and love— that’s where you are.”

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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

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Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.

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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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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we…

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Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory…

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“We meet wonderful people, but lose them in our busyness. We’re, as the saying goes, all over the place. Steadfastness, it seems,…

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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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Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

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Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror…

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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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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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I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and…

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And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many…

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“Every year the hatchlings wake in the swaying branches, in the silver baskets, and love the world. Is it necessary to say…

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“EVERY DOG’S STORY I have a bed, my very own. It’s just my size. And sometimes I like to sleep alone with…

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“We do not think of it every day, but we never forget it: the beloved shall grow old, or ill, and be…

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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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“Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me" Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out…

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“yoga soul today. instant resonation. Spring Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring down the mountain. All…

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“In the mystery and the energy of loving, we all view time's shadow upon the beloved as wretchedly as any of Poe's…

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“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die.…

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“oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine…

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If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed…

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“Love Sorrow Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must take care of what has been given. Brush her hair, help…

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“eventually tides will be the only calendar you believe in… And someone’s face, whom you love, will be as a star Both…

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