Мэри Оливер цитаты

Вариант: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Источник: Thirst

"In Blackwater Woods"
American Primitive (1983)
Источник: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

"So every day"
Red Bird (2008)

Источник: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

Dream Work (1986)
Источник: "Wild Geese"

Источник: A Thousand Mornings

"The Summer Day"
New and Selected Poems (1992)
Вариант: What will you do with your one precious, wild life?
Источник: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Источник: Evidence: Poems

"Sometimes", § 4
Red Bird (2008)
Вариант: Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

"Evidence"
Evidence (2009)

Источник: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

"Of Power and Time"
Blue Pastures (1995)

"Wild Geese"
Dream Work (1986)
Контексте: 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.

"Sometimes", § 5
Red Bird (2008)
Контексте: Two or three times in my life I discovered love.
Each time it seemed to solve everything.
Each time it solved a great many things
but not everything.
Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and
thoroughly, solved everything.

"Sometimes", § 7
Red Bird (2008)
Контексте: Death waits for me, I know it, around
one corner or another.
This doesn't amuse me.
Neither does it frighten me. After the rain, I went back into the field of sunflowers.
It was cool, and I was anything but drowsy.
I walked slowly, and listened to the crazy roots, in the drenched earth, laughing and growing.

Источник: Evidence: Poems

"When Death Comes"
New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 (2005)

Источник: A Thousand Mornings

Источник: Wild Geese

Вариант: When it’s over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
Источник: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Источник: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

"Mindful"
Why I Wake Early (2004)

Источник: Red Bird

Источник: Dog Songs

Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
West Wind (1997)

"Evidence"
Evidence (2009)