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You Quotes by Mary Oliver
- I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.
- 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…
- In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
- To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing…
- Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
- So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
- 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.
- To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
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