Quotes of Mary Oliver

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Poetry is a lifecherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

- Mary Oliver

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“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

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