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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

by Mary Oliver

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"Her perspective often feels meditative, grounded in nature, full of softspoken universal themes. I am finding her later poetry, when she was older, more moving and mature (more self-assured, maybe?). There’s a clarity there I resonate with." — Apr 19, 2025 07:46PM

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

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“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

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