„Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?“
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
"The Summer Day"
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0 0Mary Oliver
Geburtstag: 10. September 1935
Todesdatum: 17. Januar 2019
Andere Namen:مری الیور
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Mary Oliver ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Pulitzer-Preis-Trägerin.
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„Tell me, what is it you plan to do
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„I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.“
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
„I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God, one of which was you.“
— Mary Oliver
Context: So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
"So every day"
„Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.“
— Mary Oliver
Context: Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
"Sometimes", § 4
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„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.“
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
"In Blackwater Woods"
„Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?“
— Mary Oliver
Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
„I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.“
— Mary Oliver
Context: I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
"Evidence"
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„I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.“
— Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
„Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.“
— Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
