Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver More Quotes by Mary Oliver More Quotes From Mary Oliver Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life. Mary Oliver someday rainy-day chance All eternity is in the moment. Mary Oliver moments eternity We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come. Mary Oliver doubt wonderful ideas I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better. Mary Oliver stars dark morning ... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair. Mary Oliver despair risk comfort It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else. Mary Oliver somewhere-else want water I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars. Mary Oliver stars fire dark Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving Mary Oliver touching knowing play I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it. Mary Oliver spring years thinking Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much. Mary Oliver singing love-you rose As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. Mary Oliver dancing dance long So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. Mary Oliver enjoy-life imagination rivers Belief isn't always easy. Mary Oliver eye belief easy 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. Mary Oliver serendipity luck grace Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth. Mary Oliver emotional body earth Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. Mary Oliver stars kindness morning Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective. Mary Oliver walks world Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going. Mary Oliver imagine said rivers When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included. Mary Oliver pity littles world I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang. Mary Oliver body worry morning
