“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. --from WHEN DEATH COMES” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to save my life a little.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything? And have you finally figured out what beauty is… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“so long as you don’t mind a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn’t have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“When it over, I want to say:all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“One or two things are all you need to travel over the blue pond, over the deep roughage of the trees and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“West Wind #2 You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“You have broken my heart. Just as well. Now I am learning to rise above all that, learning the thin life, waking… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The Pond" August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees -… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Every year the hatchlings wake in the swaying branches, in the silver baskets, and love the world. Is it necessary to say… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open. — Mary Oliver Copy Share
In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver Copy Share
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn… — Mary Oliver Copy Share
“All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers. • To understand many things you must reach out of your own condition.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share
“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few… — Mary Oliver Copy Share
“First Snow The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty… — mary oliver Copy Share
“What can I say that I have not said before? So I’ll say it again. The leaf has a song in it. Stone is… — Mary Oliver Copy Share
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow… — Mary Oliver Copy Share
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share
“I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves, Like… — Mary Oliver Copy Share
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I… — Mary Oliver Copy Share
