— Mary Oliver
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this zine may not be about you. for a long time these thoughts were in my brain but only to lovingly yell at my friends. this zine may be about you but not helpful to you at this time. i hope it's helpful to some though.
if you like this zine you may also like the body neutrality movement. and the song "can't go back" by the crane wives, which i kinda quoted as well. leave the rest behind.
this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april
some things that didn't fit in this zine were:
you gotta learn. you gotta learn that learning doesn't mean feeling bad.
it doesn't help you act right to feel bad about previous things. guilt is useful to a point. that point is reached when you know what you did wrong
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I believe poetry is very old. It’s very sacred. It wishes for a community — it’s a community ritual, certainly. And that’s why, when you write a poem, you write it for anybody and everybody. And you have to be ready to do that out of your single self. It’s a giving. It’s always a gift. It’s a gift to yourself, but it’s a gift to anybody who has a hunger for it.
Mary Oliver (On Being)
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Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004
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{Words by Charles Bukowski/ Mary Oliver from invitation}
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Mary Oliver, from "We Should Be Well Prepared", Red Bird
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— Mary Oliver, The Pond
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— Mary Oliver, from The Gardener (via lunamonchtuna)
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"And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life."
Mary Oliver
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the miracle of being here
invitation, mary oliver// @arthoesunshine // when death comes, mary oliver//to be alive, gregory ott// the dead poets society(1989), quote: walden, henry david thoreau// joseph campbell// the aeneid, virgil// @babyangel-jpg // @rawjoy //sweet, charles bukowski// that it will never come again, emily dickinson// bjenny montero// ? // ? // moments, mary oliver// madness a bipolar life, marya hornbacher// wild geese, mary oliver// letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke// on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong// @ashstfu // i thought on his desire for three days, linda gregg
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North Country, Mary Oliver//Holly Warburton
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Nothing lasts. There is a graveyard where everything I am talking about is, now.
— Mary Oliver, from "Flare", Devotions
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Zoë Lianne, "Erasure"
Mary Oliver, "Felicity"
Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"
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I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall —
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.
Mary Oliver, I Go Down to the Shore
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Mary Oliver, from The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver; "Sleeping In The Forest,"
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