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“Listen, whatever you see and love— that’s where you are.”

Book:Dog Songs: Poems

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Dog Songs: Poems

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Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is a renowned American poet, born on September 10, 1935. Her poetry is known for its profound depiction of the natural world and delicate insights into life. Oliver's style is simple and direct, which has won her a wide audience. more

“I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again—why I always noticed and remembered the little changes in her dress that I had noticed and remembered in no other woman’s before—why I saw her, heard her, and touched her (when we shook hands at night and morning) as I had never seen, heard, and touched any other woman in my life?”

Love Should Home House Sight Touched Remembrance Dessert Touch Noticing Changes Barren Hear Room Seen Asked Entered Shook Hands

Book:The woman in white

Source: The woman in white

“...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.”

Home Toni Morrison

Book:Home

Source: Home

“He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go home. And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”

Home

Book:American Gods

Source: American Gods

“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”

Home Christmas

Author:Marjorie Holmes

“I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.”

Life Home Hope Travel Remains Words Dread New Life Beginning Traveling Travels

Book:The woman in white

Source: The woman in white

“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature.”

Home Nature Sea Ocean Marine Pacific Ocean

Book:Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband's. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick. All households had their mysteries, their particular forms of dysfunction.”

Home Family

Book:Before You Know Kindness

Source: Before You Know Kindness

“You know that old saying about home being where the heart is? I don’t think that refers to your own. It’s the hearts of other people, the ones you love, that makes a home.”

Love Home

Book:Something Like Autumn

Source: Something Like Autumn

“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use— silence, exile, and cunning.”

Home Action Belief Church Silence Expression Exile Cunning Serve

Book:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“There it is." And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again. "The Happiness Machine," he said. "The Happiness Machine.”

Children Home Happiness Family

Book:Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

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