Mary Oliver Frasi e Citazioni
Mary Oliver: Frasi in inglese
Variante: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Origine: Thirst
"In Blackwater Woods"
American Primitive (1983)
Origine: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
"The Summer Day"
New and Selected Poems (1992)
Variante: What will you do with your one precious, wild life?
Origine: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
"Sometimes", § 4
Red Bird (2008)
Variante: Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
"Evidence"
Evidence (2009)
Origine: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
"Wild Geese"
Dream Work (1986)
Contesto: You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
“Two or three times in my life I discovered love.
Each time it seemed to solve everything.”
"Sometimes", § 5
Red Bird (2008)
Contesto: Two or three times in my life I discovered love.
Each time it seemed to solve everything.
Each time it solved a great many things
but not everything.
Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and
thoroughly, solved everything.
"Sometimes", § 7
Red Bird (2008)
Contesto: Death waits for me, I know it, around
one corner or another.
This doesn't amuse me.
Neither does it frighten me. After the rain, I went back into the field of sunflowers.
It was cool, and I was anything but drowsy.
I walked slowly, and listened to the crazy roots, in the drenched earth, laughing and growing.
“Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world.”
Origine: Evidence: Poems
“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
"When Death Comes"
New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 (2005)
Variante: 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.
Origine: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us”
Origine: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
“Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?”
Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
West Wind (1997)
