Light Quotes by Mary Oliver

“Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light.”

— Mary Oliver

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees -…

— Mary Oliver

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

— Mary Oliver

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind…

— Mary Oliver

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in…

— Mary Oliver

All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and…

— Mary Oliver

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable…

— Mary Oliver

How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and…

— Mary Oliver

Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause?…

— Mary Oliver

Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and…

— Mary Oliver

I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and…

— Mary Oliver

On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the…

— Mary Oliver

“Poem (the spirit likes to dress up) The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all…

— Mary Oliver

“First Snow The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence…

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