Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliveris an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 September 1935
CityMaple Heights, OH
CountryUnited States of America
life disaster wells
Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
want precious-life
Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?
life-worth-living worth-living knows
I know many lives worth living.
life breathing modest
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
attention end-of-life ends
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
prayer attention how-precious-life-is
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention...
how-precious-life-is done lasts
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?
rivers imagination live-your-life
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.
inspirational life real
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. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
life travel breathing
Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
life dream lying
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
love life relationship
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.
life heart rave
And I say to my heart: rave on.
life responsibility giving
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.