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title: "2 Tell Plan Quotes By Mary Oliver"
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> [Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/tell-me-what-is-it-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

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> [Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/tell-me-what-it-is-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

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## More by Mary Oliver

> [Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/belief-isn-t-always-easy-but-this-much-i-have-learned-if-not-enough/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/in-this-universe-we-are-given-two-gifts-the-ability-to-love-and-the/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/poetry-is-one-of-the-original-arts-and-it-began-as-did-all-the-fine/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/the-dream-of-my-life-is-to-lie-down-by-a-slow-river-and-stare-at-the/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/tell-me-what-is-it-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [“All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers. • To understand many things you must reach out of your own condition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/all-important-ideas-must-include-the-trees-the-mountains-and-the/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/sometimes-i-think-were-i-just-a-little-rougher-made-i-would-go/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/first-snow-the-snow-began-here-this-morning-and-all-day-continued-its/)

[mary oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/what-can-i-say-that-i-have-not-said-before-so-i-ll-say-it-again-the/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/the-sea-is-the-most-beautiful-face-in-our-universe/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/there-is-nothing-better-than-work-work-is-also-play-children-know/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [“What will you do with your one precious, wild life?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/what-will-you-do-with-your-one-precious-wild-life/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/poetry-is-a-life-cherishing-force-for-poems-are-not-words-after-all/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [“I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves, Like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-stood-like-adam-in-his-lonely-garden-on-that-first-morning-shaken/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

> [We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/we-all-have-a-hungry-heart-and-one-of-the-things-we-hunger-for-is/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

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