"It is the nature of stone to be……" — Mary Oliver
"It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else."
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Mary Oliver
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210 Quotes by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver has 210 quotes on this site.
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Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or…
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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…
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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…
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Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being…
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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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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
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Nature does nothing in vain.
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to…
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