Best Mary Oliver Lines
- Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This… Amazement
- And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,… All
- Poetry is a life-cherishing force. Cherish
- Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to… Along
- Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed. Attitude
- Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world. Advice
- I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. Believe
- Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. Dream
- Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going. Imagine
- But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable… Done Right
- Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float… Aside
- You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. Chance
- Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of… Day
- A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own… Almost Nothing
- The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and… Call
- Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do… Die
- The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has… Among
- Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly Able
- And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's… Alive
- maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us-- All
- Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. Box
- It's not a competition, it's a doorway. Competition
- I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too. Life
- You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. Anyone
- You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You… Animal
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