She won the Pulitzer in 1984 for the collection American Primitive. National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Mary Oliver died Thursday, at age 83. Have you ever seen: anything: in your life: more wonderful : than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon : and into the clouds or the hills,

Poetry by Mary Oliver, including The Journey. Watering The Stones by Mary Oliver. Once in a while, I swear, I’ve even heard one or two of them saying “Hello.” Which, I think, does no harm to anyone or anything, does it? Mary Oliver. Let's enjoy the poem "Watering The Stones" written by poet Mary Oliver on Rhymings.Com! Everywhere we look; the sweet guttural swill of the water tumbling. (Mary Oliver, Blue Horses, 2014) 1 Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. There are even poems in which Oliver expresses a magical side to nature, as in “Such Silence” and “Watering the Stones.” In the first, the poet waits and fully expects that the magical can happen in a forest; perhaps an angel may appear or perhaps “dancers with legs of goats.” In the other, stones she keeps in a bowl mysteriously “drink” water.

Isn't it clear the black oaks along the path are standing as though they were the most fragile of flowers?

This feature is not available right now. A Meeting. Like black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river? I’ve selected some poems that may give you a taste of the scope of her … the beach holding a few stones, and they look at them rather more closely now. A poem by Mary Oliver cut out and tacked up on the wall shivers as I breathe Landscape Isn't it plain the sheets of moss, except that they have no tongues, could lecture all day if they wanted about spiritual patience?

The Moths by Mary Oliver - There’s a kind of white moth, I don’t know what kind, that glimmers by mid-May in the forest, just as the pink For those who don’t read a lot of Mary Oliver poems and would like to begin including it in their regular reading diet, treat this as a guide where to start.

It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the … Possibility is ever-present. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. Nature is central to Oliver’s idea of God. Enjoy the best of Mary Oliver quotes and poems about love and other topics.

Mary Oliver — ‘It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.’ The secret slippery package drops to the weeds. Her first collection, No Voyage and Other Poems, was published in 1963. Gravel by Mary Oliver It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. She steps into the dark swamp where the long wait ends.

It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

It is no small gift. Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. If you know Mary Oliver’s writing, you probably know "The Kingfisher." NPR interview with Mary Oliver. She leans her long neck and tongues it between breaths slack with exhaustion and after a while it rises and becomes a creature like her, but much smaller. So now there are two. Please try again later. 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.” Oliver’s poetry focused on the quiet of occurrences of nature: industrious hummingbirds, egrets, motionless ponds, “lean owls / hunkering… And they walk together like a dream under the trees.