Quote by Mary Oliver
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willin

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

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Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. – Mary Oliver

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Poetry
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. – Mary Oliver

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Wise Words
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. – Mary Oliver

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Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. – Krishnamacharya

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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. – Swedish Proverb

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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. – Sanskrit Proverb

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Fear is excitement without the breath. – Fritz Perls

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Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost. – Seamus Heaney

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