The Poet With His Face In His Hands
You want to cry aloud for your
mistakes. But to tell the truth the world
doesn’t need anymore of that sound.
So if you’re going to do it and can’t
stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can’t
hold it in, at least go by yourself across
the forty fields and the forty dark inclines
of rocks and water to the place where
the falls are flinging out their white sheets
like crazy, and there is a cave behind all that
jubilation and water fun and you can
stand there, under it, and roar all you
want and nothing will be disturbed; you can
drip with despair all afternoon and still,
on a green branch, its wings just lightly touched
by the passing foil of the water, the thrush,
puffing out its spotted breast, will sing
of the perfect, stone-hard beauty of everything.
Mary Oliver
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You can reach out to them, and all day long.
MARY OLIVER
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MARY OLIVER Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
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MARY OLIVER Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. ...
MARY OLIVER So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
MARY OLIVER The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gon...
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MARY OLIVER I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a c...
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MARY OLIVER As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world wit...
MARY OLIVER You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility ...
MARY OLIVER Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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MARY OLIVER The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
thou...
MARY OLIVER Love Sorrow
Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has...
MARY OLIVER There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?
MARY OLIVER Always there is something worth saying
about glory, about gratitude.
MARY OLIVER Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, ...
MARY OLIVER If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.
MARY OLIVER My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here ...
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...
MARY OLIVER MARY OLIVER I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
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.
MARY OLIVER Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
MARY OLIVER I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
MARY OLIVER There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day ...
MARY OLIVER My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work...
MARY OLIVER There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as...
MARY OLIVER Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.
MARY OLIVER I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involu...
MARY OLIVER To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or ano...
MARY OLIVER I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and neve...
MARY OLIVER I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily...
MARY OLIVER Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of ...
MARY OLIVER So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one...
MARY OLIVER Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some goo...
MARY OLIVER There are things you can’t reach. But
You can reach out to them, and all day long.
MARY OLIVER We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, al...
MARY OLIVER The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shorew...
MARY OLIVER When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself include...
MARY OLIVER The poet dreams of the classroom
I dreamed
I stood up in class
And I said aloud...
MARY OLIVER You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know that of a...
MARY OLIVER I do not live happily or comfortably
With the cleverness of our times.
The talk is all abo...
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or about pain
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...
MARY OLIVER What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
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MARY OLIVER Praying
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lo...
MARY OLIVER I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
MARY OLIVER Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world.
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MARY OLIVER Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.
MARY OLIVER Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, ho...
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MARY OLIVER To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
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Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night ...
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of sitting ou...
MARY OLIVER I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck...
MARY OLIVER LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)
He puts his cheek against mine
...
MARY OLIVER Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the...
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and depending on...
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MARY OLIVER And now you'll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won't be false, and they won'...
MARY OLIVER New and Selected Poems: Volume Two
MARY OLIVER To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work
MARY OLIVER When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom,...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places?
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I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I wen...
MARY OLIVER I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social work...
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MARY OLIVER I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not givi...
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into the boat and begi...
MARY OLIVER The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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MARY OLIVER I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
MARY OLIVER Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not bei...
MARY OLIVER If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the w...
MARY OLIVER Why I Wake Early
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
...
MARY OLIVER After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
MARY OLIVER You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. W...
MARY OLIVER Pretty Song"
From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return....
MARY OLIVER The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me a box fu...
MARY OLIVER And who do you
think you are sauntering along
five feet up in the air, the ocean a blue f...
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
Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even,
while it calls the earth its ...
MARY OLIVER Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.
MARY OLIVER I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going we...
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.
Say you promise to be at your ...
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...
MARY OLIVER I believe you did not have a happy life.
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...
MARY OLIVER When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a b...
MARY OLIVER At Blackwater Pond
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
your o...
MARY OLIVER Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
a...
MARY OLIVER When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when...
MARY OLIVER Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly
MARY OLIVER In Blackwater Woods
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...
MARY OLIVER Percy and Books
Percy does not like it when I read a book.
He puts his face over th...
MARY OLIVER I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
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...
OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
OLIVER My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
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