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Mary Oliver (1935–2019) was an American poet, teacher, speaker, editor, and prose writer who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, as well as many other honors. Her prolific work is both inspired by and deeply celebratory of nature and how it intersects with the limits of the human world.

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Mary Oliver Did Something Rare: She Made Poetry Accessible

Mary Oliver, arguably America's most beloved best-selling poet, had died earlier in the day, at the age of 83.

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Maggie Smith
2019
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Mary Oliver, the Poet Who Saw the Wilderness in Humanity

"Few poets have had the ability to so beautifully articulate their love of nature as well as Mary Oliver. "

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Eric Holthaus
2019
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“Of Looking, and Looking”: On Mary Oliver

"In her poem "White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field" Oliver proposes, from her observations of the predatory bird, 'that we are instantly weary' at the moment of death, 'of looking, and looking, and shut our eyes,/not without astonishment,/and let ourselves be carried.' "

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Jason Myers
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The Spiritual Legacy of Mary Oliver

“You should know,” Oliver wrote in her 2013 collection Dog Songs, “that of all the sights I love in this world—and there are plenty—very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.”

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Lauren Krauze
2019
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A Bride Married to Amazement

"...Oliver’s immense body of work sprang from within the constraints of a rather ascetic lifestyle, which was, at least during her earlier years as a writer, characterised by poverty. "

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Kawther Luay
2019
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Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver was an “indefatigable guide to the natural world,” wrote Maxine Kumin in the Women’s Review of Books, “particularly to its lesser-known aspects.

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Poetry Foundation
2019
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Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate

"Mary Oliver is one of our era’s most beloved and prolific poets—a sage of wisdom on the craft of poetry and a master of its magic; a woman as unafraid to be witty as she is to be wise."

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Maria Popova
2015
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Mary Oliver, a Poet Whose Simple Turns of Phrase Held Mass Appeal, Dies at 83

Mary Oliver’s instructions for living were simple: “Pay attention. / Be astonished. / Tell about it.”

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Meilan Solly
2019
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Mary Oliver: Poet of Awe

Years before Mindfulness took the world by storm, inviting us to savor the moment, Mary Oliver had long been saying things like: “Attention is our endless and proper work,” “Attention is the beginning of devotion,” and “This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the...

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Fabiana Fondevila
2019
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Mary Oliver’s Poetry Found a Second Life as a Meme

"You do not have to be good” is a stunner of a first line, an all-time great, an opening sentence for the ages, the kind of opening sentence that demands, and gets, its reader’s absolute surrender."

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Helena Fitzgerald
2019
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