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. -Mary Oliver

 

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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This quote is just one of 6 total Mary Oliver quotes in our collection. Mary Oliver is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

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

Mary Oliver
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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. -Mary Oliver
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

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

Mary Oliver
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New and Selected Poems: Volume Two. -Mary Oliver
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