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Mary Oliver ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Pulitzer-Preis-Trägerin.

✵ 10. September 1935 – 17. Januar 2019  •  Andere Namen مری الیور
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„Die bedauerlichsten Menschen auf Erden sind diejenigen, die den Ruf zur kreativen Arbeit verspürten, die ihre eigene schöpferische Kraft als unruhig und erhebend empfanden und ihr weder Kraft noch Zeit gaben.“

Mary Oliver

„… Es gab eine neue Stimme,
die du langsam
als deine eigene erkanntest,
die dir Gesellschaft leistete,
als du tiefer und tiefer
in die Welt eindrangst,
entschlossen, das Einzige zu tun,
was du tun konnten -
entschlossen, das einzige Leben zu retten,
das du retten konnten.“

Mary Oliver

„Ich sage dir das
um dein Herz zu brechen,
womit ich nur meine,
dass es aufbricht und sich dem Rest der Welt
nie wieder verschließt.“

Mary Oliver

Zitate über die Welt von Mary Oliver

„Lieben Sie diese Welt? Schätzen Sie Ihr bescheidenes und seidiges Leben? Lieben Sie das grüne Gras mit seinem Schrecken darunter?“

Mary Oliver

„Liebe Dich selbst.
Dann vergiss es.
Dann liebe die Welt.“

Mary Oliver

„Wo immer ich bin, kommt die Welt mir nach.
Sie bietet mir ihre Geschäftigkeit. Sie glaubt nicht,
dass ich sie nicht will. Jetzt verstehe ich,
warum die alten Dichter Chinas so weit und
hoch in die Berge gingen und sich dann in den blassen Nebel schlichen.“

Mary Oliver

„Und das ist genau der Punkt… wie die Welt, feucht und schön, jeden von uns auffordert, eine neue und ernsthafte Antwort zu geben. Das ist die große Frage, die die Welt jeden Morgen auf dich wirft. "Hier bist du, lebendig. Möchtest du einen Kommentar abgeben?"“

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver Zitate und Sprüche

„Ich gehe morgens zum Ufer hinunter
und je nach Stunde rollen die Wellen hinein oder heraus und ich sage: Oh, ich bin unglücklich,
was soll -
was sollte ich tun? Und das Meer sagt mit seiner schönen Stimme:
Entschuldigung, ich habe Arbeit zu erledigen.“

Mary Oliver

„Ich glaube an Freundlichkeit. Auch in Unfrieden.“

Mary Oliver

„Es fiel Schnee,
so sehr wie Sterne
die dunkle Bäume füllten,
dass man sich leicht vorstellen konnte,
dass der Grund ihres Daseins nichts anderes als Hübschheit war.“

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver: Zitate auf Englisch

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”

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Mary Oliver

Quelle: Wild Geese

“You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace.”

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"Sand Dabs, Five"
Winter Hours (1999)
Kontext: You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

“Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.”

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"The Ponds"
House of Light (1990)

“I am a performing artist; I perform admiration.
Come with me, I want my poems to say. And do the same.”

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"Sand Dabs, Five"
Winter Hours (1999)

“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds.”

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"Staying Alive"
Blue Pastures (1995)
Kontext: I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion — that standing within this otherness — the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books — can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

“Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue.
But all beautiful things, inherently, have this function —
to excite the viewers toward sublime thought.
Glory to the world, that good teacher.”

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"Evidence"
Evidence (2009)

“… there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.”

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“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?”

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“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”

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“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”

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Quelle: Red Bird

“the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own”

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“And that is just the point… how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”

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“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us…”

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Quelle: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

“But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness.”

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"Poppies"
Blue Iris (2004)

“And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful — how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.”

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"Robert Schumann"
Dream Work (1986)
Quelle: Blue Pastures

“Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”

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Quelle: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

“Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.”

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Quelle: Why I Wake Early

“Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?”

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“Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.

Then, go to sleep.
Give up your body heat, your beating heart.
Then, trust.”

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“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”

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Quelle: Red Bird

“And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.”

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Quelle: Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

“And now you'll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won't be false, and they won't be true
but they'll be real”

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Quelle: A Thousand Mornings

“You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.”

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Quelle: Dog Songs

“My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums…”

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"Messenger"
Variante: My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness
Quelle: Thirst (2006)

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