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Mary Oliver

Born

in Maple Heights, Ohio, The United States

September 10, 1935

Died

January 17, 2019

Website

http://maryoliver.beacon.org

Genre

Poetry

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Mary Jane Oliver was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild.

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Average rating: 4.32 · 197,630 ratings · 23,727 reviews · 106 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Thousand Mornings: Poems 4.21 avg rating — 25,876 ratings — published 2012 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver 4.58 avg rating — 17,809 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Upstream: Selected Essays 4.17 avg rating — 18,953 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dog Songs: Poems 4.24 avg rating — 14,420 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New and Selected Poems, Volume One 4.55 avg rating — 13,436 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Felicity 4.28 avg rating — 13,224 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream Work 4.34 avg rating — 11,898 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Horses 4.28 avg rating — 9,438 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why I Wake Early 4.40 avg rating — 8,088 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Poetry Handbook 4.22 avg rating — 7,795 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9048 likes

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: beauty, birds, nature, poetry, shore, woods

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

tags: box, darkness, gift, love

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Who is your favorite poet? (add to this list if needed)

Charles Bukowski

38 votes, 15.0%

E. E. Cummings

21 votes, 8.3%

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15 votes, 5.9%

Emily Dickinson

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12 votes, 4.7%

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William Blake (write-in)

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D. H. Lawrence (write-in)

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Nikki Giovanni

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Sherman Alexie

2 votes, 0.8%

Adrienne Rich

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Wallace Stevens (write-in)

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Andrea Gibson (write-in)

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Dylan Thomas (write-in)

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Dante (write-in)

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Seamus Heaney (write-in)

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Hart Crane (write-in)

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John Donne (write-in)

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Marge Piercy (Author)

1 vote, 0.4%

Li Young Lee

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Naomi Shihab Nye

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FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence

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Audre Lorde

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Mark Doty (write-in)

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Gwendolyn Brooks (write-in)

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Geoffrey Chaucer (write-in)

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Stephen Crane (write-in)

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Ellen Hopkins (write-in)

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Ted Hughes (write-in)

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Al Berto (write-in)

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Mario Benedetti (write-in)

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Percy Shelley (write-in)

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Alexander Pope (write-in)

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E.E. Cummings (write-in)

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Philip Levine (write-in)

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Rafał Wojaczek (write-in)

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Gérard de Nerval (write-in)

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A. Kamalei (write-in)

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Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)

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Lewis Carroll (write-in)

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Jack Kerouac (write-in)

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Martin Espada

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Stephen Dunn

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Dmitry Prigov

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Wisława Szymborska

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Hiroyuki Nishigaki

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