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“I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.”

Mary Oliver · Loneliness

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Mary Oliver

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.

Love

Mary Oliver

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.

Amazing

Mary Oliver

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Poetry

Mary Oliver

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Work