Mary Oliver Quotes About Lifetime

Quotes about: Lifetime

• A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Responsibility, Long, World

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.213, Penguin

• How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Grief, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.132, Penguin

• Every year everything
  I have ever learned
  in my lifetime
  leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side
  is salvation

  Mary Oliver

  Loss, Fire, Years

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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