# Red Bird

- Author: [Mary Oliver](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird

## Quotes

> Instructions for living a life:
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> Pay attention.
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> Be astonished.
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> Tell about it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird/instructions-for-living.md)

> Two or three times in my life I discovered love.
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> Each time it seemed to solve everything.
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> Each time it solved a great many things
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> but not everything.
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> Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and
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> thoroughly, solved everything.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird/two-or-three.md)

> So every day
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> I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
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> of the ideas of God,one of which was you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird/so-every-day.md)

> I don't know what God is.
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> I don't know what death is.But I believe they have between them
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> some fervent and necessary arrangement.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird/i-dont-know.md)

> Death waits for me, I know it, around
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> one corner or another.
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> This doesn't amuse me.
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> Neither does it frighten me. After the rain, I went back into the field of sunflowers.
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> It was cool, and I was anything but drowsy.
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> I walked slowly, and listened to the crazy roots, in the drenched earth, laughing and growing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird/death-waits-for.md)

> then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that
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> and the years before that
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> you were not.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird/then-you-too.md)