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Mary Oliver has 212 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but…
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Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.
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Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at…
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise…
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Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing…
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of…
— Giorgio de Chirico
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Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and…
— Mary Oliver
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He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
— Gilbert White
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