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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

Other quotes by Mary Oliver

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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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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Mary Oliver
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Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one’s own life. – Luce Irigaray, Between East and West

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Walking through the house at night is wonderful to me; a symphony of breath, each person a separate instrument as they collectively breathe in time to the metronome of life itself. – Edwin Leap, www.edwinleap.com

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Happiness breathes when you do. – Terri Guillemets

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Niggerization is the result of oppression — and it doesnt just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized. – Florynce R. Kennedy

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I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. Its sad. – Grace Slick

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. – Euripedes

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Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy. – Ismail Haniyeh

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