50 Mary Oliver Quotes – Her Very Best Quotes!
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MARY OLIVER QUOTES
1 – Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. Mary Oliver
2 – Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life? Mary Oliver
3 – I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. Mary Oliver
4 – Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. Mary Oliver
5 – If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. Mary Oliver
6 – Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead. Mary Oliver
7- It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else. Mary Oliver
8 – You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it. Mary Oliver
9 – Someone I loved once gave me / a box full of darkness./ It took me years to understand/ that this too, was a gift. Mary Oliver
10 – There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It’s duty. Mary Oliver
MARY OLIVER QUOTES
11 – But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive. Mary Oliver
12 – For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple. Mary Oliver
13 – This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. Mary Oliver
14 – Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. Mary Oliver
15 – Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Mary Oliver
16 – I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us… Mary Oliver
17- You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about. Mary Oliver
18 – To tell you the truth, I believe everything – tigers, trees, stones – are sentient in one way or another. You’d never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example. Mary Oliver
19 – Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell me about it. Mary Oliver
20 – Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. Mary Oliver
MARY OLIVER QUOTES
21 – You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it. Mary Oliver
22 – I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. Mary Oliver
23 – In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be. Mary Oliver
24 – We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. Mary Oliver
25 – You can fool a lot of yourself but you can’t fool the soul. Mary Oliver
26 – I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. Mary Oliver
27- Listen–are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? Mary Oliver
28 – Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields… Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. Mary Oliver
29 – 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 your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver
30 – There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier? Mary Oliver
MARY OLIVER QUOTES
31 – You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. Mary Oliver
32 – You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves. Mary Oliver
33 – What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. Mary Oliver
34 – To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Mary Oliver
35 – Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going. Mary Oliver
36 – It is a serious thing /just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. Mary Oliver
37- I tell you this/ to break your heart, /by which I mean only/ that it break open and never close again/ to the rest of the world. Mary Oliver
38 – You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotion. Mary Oliver
39 – Listen, whatever you see and love—
That’s where you are. Mary Oliver
40 – Maybe death
isn’t darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us– Mary Oliver
MARY OLIVER QUOTES
41 – After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world. Mary Oliver
42 – It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day. Mary Oliver
43 -Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed. Mary Oliver
44 – It’s not a competition, it’s a doorway. Mary Oliver
45 – Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to
save my life – a little. Mary Oliver
46 – Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world. Mary Oliver
47- For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me. Mary Oliver
48 – It is better for the heart to break, than not to break. Mary Oliver
49 – Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Mary Oliver
50 – The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. Mary Oliver
BONUS: I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing — that the light is everything — that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do. Mary Oliver
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Frances Vidakovic
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