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Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

~Mary Oliver

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

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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

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You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

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I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.

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Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 10th, 1935

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