Mary Oliver Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Blessed, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.65, Beacon Press

• Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear

  Mary Oliver

  Gratitude, Sweet, Prayer

• Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Great Men, Expecting

• I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Thinking, Interesting

• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Attention, How Precious Life Is

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.89, Beacon Press

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