"Mary Oliver" is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, [America's] best-selling poet".

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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

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What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places?

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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.

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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

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Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?

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New and Selected Poems: Volume Two.

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