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    <body><![CDATA[Every poem in here is perfection, but my favorites are , of course, &quot;Morning Poem&quot; and &quot;Wild Geese.&quot;  Here's &quot;Wild Geese&quot;:<br/>&quot;You do not have to be good.<br/>You do not have to walk on your knees<br/>for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.<br/>You ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45602823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE Mary Oliver and would recommend her poetry to anyone. One of the reasons I so love her work is that she is totally accessible. She doesn't write those things that are so obtuse that you are afraid to say, &quot;What the hell is that about?&quot; because everyone else is also afraid to say tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7540716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From &quot;Spring&quot;: &quot;Somewhere/a black bear/has just risen from sleep/and is staring/down the mountain./All night/in the brisk and shallow restlessness/of early spring/I think of her/her four black fists/flicking gravel/her tongue/like a red fire/touching the grass/the cold water./There is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3646649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;There is only one question: how to love this world,&quot; Mary Oliver writes in &quot;Spring,&quot; one of the finest poems in this collection.  The selections in this book try to find answers to that question, primarily in the natural world.  These are poems about nature and wonder, love and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43738652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My brother gave me this book, not knowing that I met Mary Oliver's poems many years before. Some of her poems build toward such a strong last line, that they are still with me today, many years later.  <br/><br/>From &quot;The Summer Day&quot;: &quot;...Tell me, what is it you plan to do<br/>with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14809389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mary Oliver's Pulitzer-Prize winning poetry captures the remote sense of mystery and appreciation of the natural world characteristic of the Unitarian Universalist perspective. She is the rare poet who can use nature imagery to capture the raw pain and beauty of engaging fully in the moment - the pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73749988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh I love Mary Oliver. She is fierce about nature and just when you think you cannot possibly  read another poem about another meadow flower she throws one at ya like<br/>&quot;listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?&quot;<br/>Brilliant I say.<br/>And I love her attitude a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51967593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[for the right person, Oliver delivers an emotional and metaphoric experience that can bring comfort and challenge all at once. <br/><br/>i've used Oliver in my artwork  for many years.  i have not stopped loving her way of ending a piece with an aphoristic flourish - there is something sonnet-like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19645150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[more like I'm reading it AGAIN.   I enjoy the evolution of her writing,  the steps toward the sparse beauty, and the almost total exclusion of people.. I love her work.  What astounds me is how much she says about us, without invoking us at all.  We are just animals, after all...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG Mary Oliver is a sage, and I wonder how I've never come across her before now. Wonderful modernist (ehrr postmodern??) naturalist poetry (which kinda goes without say, according to what poetry I read). I love her, and I'm glad she is able to do what she does.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kate Gilday first introduced me to Mary Oliver. I've read several of her poems before, but this is my first book.  She brings such beauty and depth to nature and daily life.  Her poetry helps to bring my consciousness to the forefront of what I am doing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why do I distrust nature poets so?  Ah well, nevertheless I do.  I can say Mary Oliver is exceptionally approachable, and I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to try poetry reading.  She has some wonderful turns of phrase; and she's certainly not a self-worshiping poet (which some have t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12174045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first, second, and so on, poem I read from this book caused me to say &quot;this is the most important poem I have ever read&quot; by the end of the book I had to reconsider the possibility that each one could all be the greatest one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are 2 selected poems - the green from 1993 which is one of the best books I've ever read, and the one I refer to most often, and this one.<br/><br/>I keep trying to rate the green one and I get this one in my to read section]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll be re-reading Mary Oliver's poems for the rest of my life.  I had the privilege of hearing her read at Bates College last September, and was simply blown away.  I look to her when I'm up, when I'm down, when I need inspiration, pretty much when I need anything at all. Among my favorites, from &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4236208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just saw her read on Tuesday night at Smith College, after missing her at Bryn Mawr in 1996. So much has changed since my freshman year in college, but I'm still hushed by her poems and they remain the greatest comfort on the subway. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had to move and take only one book with me, just one, and not any other, this would be the choice. For many, many reasons, but none of them more important than just how beautiful and how many worlds this volume opens.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful and evocative poems.  I am rereading this book for the third (or fourth?) time in the same amount of months.  Very inspiring, and I'd humbly like to write half this well and meaningfully.  Bravo! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, accessible and real is how I think of Mary Oliver's poems.  She has a gift for turning the most basic observations of nature into a lyrical and timeless experience for the reader.]]></body>
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