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Wild Geese
Wild Geese: Selected Poems | Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver is one of America's best-loved poets, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.
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Branwen
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National Poetry Month: Day 10! 📖❤

Here is another Mary Oliver poem to brighten your Sunday! I really love this one! #NationalPoetryMonth

vivastory This is a favorite of mine too 👏 2y
Branwen @vivastory I always like to read it when I know I'm being too hard on myself! It's very calming and helps put things in perspective! 2y
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Branwen
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National Poetry Month: Day 9! 📖❤

I love this poem with all of my heart! Definitely a favorite of mine! 💕 #NationalPoetryMonth

Leftcoastzen Beautiful! 2y
kspenmoll I love her poetry.💕 2y
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wanderinglynn
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💜💜💜

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

#poetrymatters

Cathythoughts I love this poem ❤️❤️ Thankyou for sharing , and this is one of my favorite lines ….. ‘You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves ‘ (edited) 2y
wanderinglynn @Cathythoughts yes, I love Mary Oliver‘s words 2y
TheSpineView 💙💙💙 2y
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sprainedbrain
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This is a lovely poem that I first read when posted by some awesome Litsy friends after the poet died a while back.

But today I found out there is a recording of this poem out there narrated by Tom Hiddleston, whose narration tends to curl my toes in the best possible way. 😍

So anyway, beautiful poem, beautifully delivered:

https://youtu.be/q9S9-Q13b70

TheSpineView 💙💙💙 3y
mom2bugnbee *swoon* 3y
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wanderinglynn
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#earthday2020 #poetrymatters #acrossApril #bloomingbibliophiles

Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver

Happy Earth Day everyone! ❤️🌍💚🌳

TheSpineView Perfect for Earth Day!💚🌳💚 4y
Eggs 💗🌎🙏🏻💗 4y
OriginalCyn620 🙌🏻💚🌎 4y
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Branwen
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Rest in peace, Mary Oliver ???

"Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"

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sisilia
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RIP, Mary Oliver 😿

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bookandcat
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Rest in peace, Mary Oliver.

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ChrisBohjalian
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“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.” ― #MaryOliver
#RIP, Mary. We thank you. We miss you. We will try always to pay attention.

tpixie Lovely quote. RIP. ♥️ 5y
Graciouswarriorprincess I read this at a friend‘s wedding! I will miss her poetry! 😢 5y
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SomedayAlmost
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Rest In Peace, Mary Oliver. Thank you for being there when I needed you. #poetry #wisdom #solace #inspiration #rip

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quietlycuriouskate
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My modest Mary Oliver collection.
When Freddie Mercury died, my friend Marc said, "You wouldn't understand: all your heroes died years ago!" He was upset, so I didn't clout him with whatever book was inevitably in my hands at the time. He was wrong, though. ?

Cathythoughts Mary Oliver 💔💔💔 5y
Suet624 💕💕 5y
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Bibliogeekery
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😭💔

Cathythoughts ♥️♥️♥️this quote is wonderful 5y
Bibliogeekery @Cathythoughts it's my favourite quote from my favourite poem of hers! 5y
AmyG Oh man. 😪 5y
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Cathythoughts My yoga teacher often says this quote ♥️ 5y
Suet624 💕💕💕 5y
SomedayAlmost Rest In Peace. A wise talent! 5y
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Bibliogeekery
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RIP Mary Oliver! Thank you for the beautiful words. Few people I have never met have impacted me as much as you have! 💔😭

Cathythoughts Oh I‘ve just heard this .... what a beautiful woman ♥️rest in peace Mary Oliver & thankyou ✨ 5y
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quietlycuriouskate
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"I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want

to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings."

#rise #poetrymatters @LazyDays

Lcsmcat ❤️ Mary Oliver‘s work! 5y
Cathythoughts Mary Oliver ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
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Bibliogeekery
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This!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

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Bibliogeekery
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I keep coming back to this poem. 😍 #queerbooks

Graciouswarriorprincess I love Mary Oliver. 7y
ReadingEnvy It's my favorite of hers 7y
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Stephanie-Anne
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the soft animal of your body ❤#nationalpoetrymonth

Nat_Reads Mary Oliver!! Great choice!! This one is on the wall of the Perot Science Museum-- 7y
ReadingEnvy This is one of my go-to having-a-bad-day poems. 7y
BibliOphelia One of my all-time favorites. ❤ 7y
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Stephanie-Anne @BibliOphelia one of my faves, too. Wanted to post this one first for poetry month, but I didn't have my book with me... 7y
Stephanie-Anne @ReadingEnvy yes! This poem is very centering for me, brings me back to the present moment. 7y
Stephanie-Anne @Nat_Reads so appropriate! Lovely choice for a science museum. I'd like to visit just to see that 😊 7y
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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One of my all-time favourite poems by Mary Oliver. Some of these lines are the only things I've ever considered getting a tattoo of. #SeasonsReadings2016 #Poetry

Lindy 💜💜💜 7y
ReadingEnvy Absolute favorite for when I'm low. 7y
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Mindyrecycles
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A colleague had decided to have her retirement party the day after the election, believing we would be celebrating the country's first woman president. She and most of us were heartsick, and she shared this poem and I for one felt a little better. Beautiful! #poetry

Bibliogeekery That is my go-to comfort poem as well! 7y
ReadingEnvy One of my most favorite 7y
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Bibliogeekery I love this poem so much! Thanks for the reminder of it! 8y
ReadingEnvy One of the best 8y
SharonGoforth A lovely reminder that I really need to read more poetry 😊 8y
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Lindy I thought you said you don't read poetry? Mary Oliver is my favourite. ❤️ 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage ❤️❤️ 8y
shawnmooney @lindy See how much of an influence you've had on me already? :-) 8y
ramyasbookshelf I'm not much of a poetry person but this sounds amazing! 8y
RobinGustafson One of my favorite poems! 8y
shawnmooney @ramyasbookshelf My sentiments exactly! :-) 8y
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