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Mary Oliver, née le 10 septembre 1935 à Maple Heights en Ohio, est une poétesse américaine.

✵ 10. septembre 1935 – 17. janvier 2019   •   Autres noms مری الیور
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Mary Oliver: Citations en anglais

“I don't know what God is.
I don't know what death is. But I believe they have between them
some fervent and necessary arrangement.”

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"Sometimes", § 1
Red Bird (2008)

“You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.”

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"The Poet With His Face in His Hands"
New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 (2005)

“then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that
and the years before that
you were not.”

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"If the philosopher is right"
Red Bird (2008)

“Am I not among the early risers
and the long-distance walkers? Have I not stood, amazed, as I consider
the perfection of the morning star
above the peaks of the houses, and the crowns of the trees
blue in the first light?
Do I not see how the trees tremble, as though
sheets of water flowed over them
though it is only wind, that common thing,
free to everyone, and everything?”

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"Am I Not Among the Early Risers"
West Wind (1997)

“What countries, what visitations,
what pomp
would satisfy me as thoroughly as Blackwater Woods
on a sun-filled morning, or, equally, in the rain?”

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"Am I Not Among the Early Risers"
West Wind (1997)

“Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in
every motion of my body there was a delicious ease,
and in every motion of the green earth there was
a hint of paradise,
and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.”

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"Am I Not Among the Early Risers"
West Wind (1997)

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