Mary Oliver Quotes - Page 12

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• And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

  Mary Oliver

  Real, Stories, Coming Back

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.21, Penguin

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• It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.

  Mary Oliver

  Reading, Writing, Years

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• And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Busy

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?

  Mary Oliver

  Beautiful, Rain, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.236, Beacon Press

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• I know many lives worth living.

  Mary Oliver

  Life Worth Living, Knows, Worth Living

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