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1. ”Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
2. ”Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
3. ”Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
4. ”Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
5. ”To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
6. ”Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
7. ”I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.”
8. ”When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.”
9. ”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.”
10. ”Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
Mary Oliver’s poetry often explores themes of nature, introspection, and the beauty of the everyday. Her words inspire readers to appreciate the world around them and to live fully in the present moment.