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First Quotes by Mary Oliver
- My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
- This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
- Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This…
- 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,…
- 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…
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