Alter | 90 Jahre |
Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 10. September 1935 |
Geburtsort | Maple Heights, Ohio, U.S. |
Todesort | Hobe Sound, Florida |
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Beschreibung | Mary Jane Oliver (* 10. September 1935; † 17. Januar 2019) war eine US-amerikanische Dichterin, die mit dem National Book Award und dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde. Ihre Werke sind von der Natur inspiriert, im Gegensatz zur menschlichen Welt, was aus ihrer lebenslangen Leidenschaft für einsame Wanderungen in der Wildnis resultiert. Sie sind geprägt von einer aufrichtigen Erstaunen über die Wirkung natürlicher Bilder, vermittelt in schlichter Sprache. Im Jahr 2007 wurde sie als meistverkaufte Dichterin des Landes erklärt. |
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
