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Mary Oliver Quotes about Life

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

Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.371, Penguin

And I say to my heart: rave on.

Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.29, Beacon Press

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Mary Oliver (2006). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, p.149, Beacon Press

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt