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When I Am Among Trees by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.And they call again, “It's simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
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Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
-- Mary Oliver⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MaryOliver #Writing
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
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Dear Lovely Peeps, for anyone who might appreciate this #Today
Today I’m flying low and I’m
not saying a word.
I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.The world goes on as it must,
the bees in the garden rumbling a little,
the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten.
And so forth.But I’m taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really I’m travelling
a terrific distance.Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple.From A Thousand Mornings, #Poems by #MaryOliver, p. 23
Published by Penguin Books 2013
© 2012 by NW Orchard LLC #Poetry -
“First, though, I want to step out into some
fresh morning and look around and hear myself
crying out: “The house of money is falling!
The house of money is falling! The weeds are
rising! The weeds are rising!” #MaryOliver #poetry -
One of Mary Oliver's most famous lines is "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
I see it quoted all the time out of context, usually on insipid inspo posts about living life to the fullest.
Every so often, I like to go back and re-read the poem it's from, The Summer Day. The meaning of a line can change quite a bit when you read it in context.
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I love McKay.
#books #maryoliver #elisemaclay #poetry -
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time
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Mary Oliver is my all time favourite poet. Isn't this magic? (alt text too) #maryoliver #dogsongs #poetry #poem
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Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
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An excerpt from "Evidence" by Mary Oliver:
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in
singing, especially when singing is not necessarily
prescribed.https://yearsrisingmaryoliver.blogspot.com/2011/02/evidence.html
#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #MaryOliver #PoetryOfPresence
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The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life
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This Mary Oliver poem 'Sleeping In The Forest' just inspires me SO much. I want to paint it somehow. #maryoliver #poetry #ithoughttheearthrememberedme #sleepingintheforest
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Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/12/knowing
#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl
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Caught the #maryoliver reference ya made there, #Maddow
Nice
#asummerday #poetry
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Oh Mary... you truly made magic ❤️ #poetry #maryoliver #nature #naturepoetry #writing #poet
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If you've never read Mary Oliver's poem "Of the Empire" you should. It's a heartbreaker.
https://yearsrisingmaryoliver.blogspot.com/2010/11/of-empire-november-14-2010.html
#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #MaryOliver #mpire #colonialism #PoetryOfPolitics
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Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/12/knowing
#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl
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My work is loving the world
My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird –
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,Which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.My Work is Loving the World, by Mary Oliver
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Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/12/knowing
#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
-- Mary Oliver -
Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/12/knowing
#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl
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Love this #poem ❤️
Who made the #world?
Who made the #swan, and the black #bear?
Who made the #grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating #sugar out of my #hand,
who is moving her #jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated #eyes.
Now she lifts her pale #forearms and thoroughly washes her #face.
Now she snaps her #wings open, and floats away.1/2
