What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and… — 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
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit many houses to find it. One person is… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me" Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
