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Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.


Mary Oliver

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MARY OLIVER All night my heart makes its way
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MARY OLIVER To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER One day you finally knew
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though the voices around you
kept s...
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what you had to do, and began,
thou...
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MARY OLIVER So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing, MARY OLIVER the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which...
MARY OLIVER When

When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know
any of us, what happens th...
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MARY OLIVER I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
...
MARY OLIVER Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
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that it break open and neve...
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one...
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You can reach out to them, and all day long.

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wherever I am
to be blessed.
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not bei...
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Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning
...
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Someone I loved once gave me a box fu...
MARY OLIVER And who do you
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MARY OLIVER As for life,
I'm humbled,
I'm without words
sufficient to say

how it has b...
MARY OLIVER Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.
MARY OLIVER oxygen

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while it calls the earth its ...
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MARY OLIVER The Poet With His Face In His Hands

You want to cry aloud for your
mistakes....
MARY OLIVER Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the wei...
MARY OLIVER How I go to the woods

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
...
MARY OLIVER I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this...
MARY OLIVER When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the b...
MARY OLIVER The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers.
MARY OLIVER You must never stop being whimsical.
MARY OLIVER I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life...
MARY OLIVER I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my li...
MARY OLIVER It
learns quickly what sort of courtship it is going to be.
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MARY OLIVER And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the ...
MARY OLIVER In your hands

The dog, the donkey, surely they know
They are alive.
Who would ...
MARY OLIVER You’re like a little wild thing
that was never sent to school.
MARY OLIVER and anyway it’s just the same old story --
a few people just trying,
one way or another,...
MARY OLIVER It is one of the perils of our so-called civilized age that we do not yet acknowledge enough, or che...
MARY OLIVER DAISIES

It is possible, I suppose that sometime
we will learn everything
there ...
MARY OLIVER Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
t...
MARY OLIVER Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat?
He is wiser than that, I thi...
MARY OLIVER ...to be absent from the world
and alive, again, in another...
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I believe you were cheated.
I believe your best f...
MARY OLIVER And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far, that is better than these light-filled bodies?
MARY OLIVER The water, that circle of shattered glass,
healed itself with a slow whisper
and lay back
MARY OLIVER All my life
I have been restless-
I have felt there is something
more wonderful than ...
MARY OLIVER Of course! the path to heaven
doesn't lie down in flat miles.
It's in the imagination
MARY OLIVER When I have to die, I would like to die
on a day of rain -
long rain, slow rain, the kind ...
MARY OLIVER Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green ...
MARY OLIVER They stay in my mind, these beautiful people,
or anyway beautiful people to me, of which
t...
MARY OLIVER And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire...
MARY OLIVER When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a brideg...
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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
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are turning
their own bodies
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Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
in...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell ...
MARY OLIVER The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own ...
MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER TIDES Every day the sea blue gray green lavender pulls away leaving the harbor’s dark-cobbled unde...
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Percy does not like it when I read a book.
He puts his face over th...
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OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to...
OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ...
OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact...
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OLIVER My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
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JAMIE OLIVER If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
OLIVER SACKS The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli...
JOHN OLIVER I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
JOHN OLIVER I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo...
OLIVER STONE I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w...
OLIVER STONE In any film there's always a historical implication.
OLIVER STONE I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt...
OLIVER STONE You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment ...
OLIVER STONE It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced...
OLIVER STONE I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
OLIVER STONE I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one...
OLIVER STONE But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with ...
OLIVER STONE A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she...
OLIVER STONE Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder...
OLIVER STONE I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th...
OLIVER STONE I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin...
OLIVER STONE When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
OLIVER STONE Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&...
OLIVER STONE If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great....
OLIVER STONE I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
OLIVER STONE I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of...
OLIVER STONE There's an electrical thing about movies.
OLIVER STONE I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ...
OLIVER STONE I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...
OLIVER STONE I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
OLIVER SACKS I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
OLIVER SACKS Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
OLIVER SACKS I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
OLIVER SACKS I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
OLIVER SACKS At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th...
OLIVER REED If the money's right, I'll do a film.
OLIVER REED You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stre...
OLIVER REED I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
OLIVER REED I'm really a pacifist.
OLIVER REED Awe and respect are two different things.
OLIVER REED I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
OLIVER REED What's the point of staying sober?
OLIVER REED Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr...
OLIVER REED