Listen, whatever you see and love — that’s where you are. - Mary Oliver

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Listen, whatever you see and love — that’s where you are.

Mary Oliver

Dog Songs: Poems · October 8, 2013 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About Mary Oliver

Mary Jane Oliver (10 September 1935 – 17 January 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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Additional quotes by Mary Oliver

How perfect to be aboard a ship with
maybe a hundred years still in my pocket.
But it's late, for all of us,
and in truth the only ship there is
is the ship we are all on
burning the world as we go.

God, or the gods, are invisible, quite understandable. But holiness is visible, entirely.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.