Frases de Mary Oliver

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Fuente: Evidence: Poems

"Sand Dabs, Five"
Winter Hours (1999)
Contexto: You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

"The Ponds"
House of Light (1990)

"Sand Dabs, Five"
Winter Hours (1999)

"Staying Alive"
Blue Pastures (1995)
Contexto: I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion — that standing within this otherness — the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books — can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

"Evidence"
Evidence (2009)

Fuente: Red Bird

Fuente: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

"Poppies"
Blue Iris (2004)

"Robert Schumann"
Dream Work (1986)
Fuente: Blue Pastures

Fuente: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Fuente: Why I Wake Early

Fuente: Red Bird

Fuente: Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

Fuente: A Thousand Mornings

Fuente: Dog Songs

"Messenger"
Variante: My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness
Fuente: Thirst (2006)