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Into Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the…
- When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,…
- I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.
- I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
- Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.
- I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel…
- I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
- Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?
- If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
- Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you…
- Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with…
- When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.
- 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…
- Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
- 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…
- ...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong