Poems Quotes by Mary Oliver

Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.

— Mary Oliver

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

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

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

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

— Mary Oliver

“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

“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

“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…

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“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

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

— Mary Oliver

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

“What will you do with your one precious, wild life?”

— Mary Oliver

“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

“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

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