Best Mary Oliver Thoughts
- ...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too,… Able
- The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a… Building
- I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and… Afraid
- from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only… All
- Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention,… Another Voice
- I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept… All
- At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes… Beautiful
- What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. Afraid
- And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of… Anymore
- Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it… All
- I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Believe
- I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us... Breath
- Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower? Already Felt
- Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I… Believe
- There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea… All
- Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my… Busy
- Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you… Across
- I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a… Alive
- And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But… Attach
- On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how… All
- Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend… Adore
- The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he… Algebra
- The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full… Beautiful
- How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in… Attention
- 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 anything. I think,… Any
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