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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

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

Life, Dream, Lying

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

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

Mary Oliver

Sweet, Lying, Sea

Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.41, Penguin

Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

Mary Oliver

Lying, Imagination, Heaven

Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.

Mary Oliver

Country, Lying, Book

Mary Oliver (1972). “The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems”