TOP 10 Mary Oliver quotes

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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

9

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

8

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

7

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

6

Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly

5

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.--from WHEN DEATH COMES

4

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

3

When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

2

Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?

1

What will you do with your one precious, wild life?