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From Quotes by Mary Oliver
- And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
- A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.
- If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much…
- Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces…
- GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and…
- The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But…
- Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of…
- When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And…
- Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until…
- Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and…
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