Mary Oliver is an American poet.
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“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
“Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?”
“What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places?”
“So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.”
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work”
“New and Selected Poems: Volume Two”