Latest Mary Oliver Quotes from Interviews

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• Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? 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. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Attention, World, Want

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• I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself.

  Mary Oliver

  Book, Agreement, Trouble

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• I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

  Mary Oliver

  Grew Up, Grew, Sad Depressed

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• The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

  Mary Oliver

  Challenges, Poet

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• I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

  Mary Oliver

  Taken, America, Feelings

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• It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

  Mary Oliver

  Weed, Blue, Voice

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• I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

  Mary Oliver

  Want, Damage, Honest

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• 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

  Spiritual, Order, World

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• I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

  Mary Oliver

  Writing, Wanted

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• There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

  Mary Oliver

  Beach, Book, Years

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• We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

  Mary Oliver

  Heart, Hunger, Hungry

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