"So this is how you swim inward. So……" — Mary Oliver
"So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray."
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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 Flow Quotes
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Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of…
— Teresa of Avila
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
— Honore de Balzac
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Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you…
— Tyra Banks
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our…
— Bruce Barton
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The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were…
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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their…
— Aeschylus
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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my…
— Johannes Brahms
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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