"Joy is not made to be a crumb.…" — Mary Oliver
"Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)"
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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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More Crumb Quotes
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There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each…
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance,…
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Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle…
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Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from…
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I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of…
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At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance…
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A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his…
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If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might…
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall…
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As for the house, it is scrubbed to the tiniest mousehole before Passover, to avoid such dangers as even a…
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