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Tag: Mary Oliver

Writer’s Desk: Pay Attention

On May 4, 2025May 3, 2025 By chrisbarsantiIn Books, WritingLeave a comment

Mary Oliver won many awards over her career, starting with the Pulitzer. But the poem of hers that has resonated the most has a very simple and telling title, “Instructions for Living“:

Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

Those three lines contain everything a writer needs to remember.

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