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Full Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm…
- 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…
- 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 into…
- Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in…
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