# Quote — Mary Oliver, Red Bird

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

- Author: [Mary Oliver](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver.md)
- Book: [Red Bird](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver#Red_Bird_(2008)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-oliver/red-bird/instructions-for-living

## More from this book

> 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)