--- title: "32 Want Quotes By Mary Oliver" description: "32 Want quotes by Mary Oliver. Plus more from Mary Oliver and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c7/mary-oliver-570_asking_on-poetry-everyone-wants-to-know-what-it_2296704.jpg" --- > [On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/on-poetry-everyone-wants-to-know-what-it-means-but-nobody-is-asking/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c7/mary-oliver-570_asking_on-poetry-everyone-wants-to-know-what-it_2296704.jpg) > [Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/who-do-you-want-to-be-in-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2d/mary-oliver-570_life_who-do-you-want-to-be-in-your-one-wild-a_1707101.jpg) > [Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/look-i-want-to-love-this-world-as-though-it-s-the-last-chance-i-m/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09b/mary-oliver-570_alive_look-i-want-to-love-this-world-as-though_1440320.jpg) > [Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/everybody-has-to-have-their-little-tooth-of-power-everybody-wants-to/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba9/mary-oliver-570_able_everybody-has-to-have-their-little-tooth_1058197.jpg) > [It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/it-is-the-nature-of-stone-to-be-satisfied-it-is-the-nature-of-water/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/mary-oliver-570_nature_it-is-the-nature-of-stone-to-be-satisfie_2846903.jpg) > [I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-want-to-believe-i-am-looking-into-the-white-fire-of-a-great-mystery/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1a/mary-oliver-570_believe_i-want-to-believe-i-am-looking-into-the_1004797.jpg) > [When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/when-it-s-over-i-don-t-want-to-wonder-if-i-have-made-of-my-life/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/mary-oliver-570_ifs_when-it-s-over-i-don-t-want-to-wonder-if_718066.jpg) > [People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/people-want-poetry-they-need-poetry-they-get-it-they-don-t-want-fancy/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bed/mary-oliver-570_fancy_people-want-poetry-they-need-poetry-they_1615823.jpg) > [When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/when-it-s-over-i-want-to-say-all-my-life-i-was-a-bride-married-to-3/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d5/mary-oliver-570_amazement_when-it-s-over-i-want-to-say-all-my-life_1870190.jpg) > [Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/still-what-i-want-in-my-life-is-to-be-willing-to-be-dazzled-to-cast/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/mary-oliver-570_casts_still-what-i-want-in-my-life-is-to-be-wi_383595.jpg) > [Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/sunrise-what-is-the-name-of-the-deep-breath-i-would-take-over-and/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/mary-oliver-570_deep-breath_sunrise-what-is-the-name-of-the-deep-bre_2222510.jpg) > [And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/and-to-tell-the-truth-i-don-t-want-to-let-go-of-the-wrists-of/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f21/mary-oliver-570_idleness_and-to-tell-the-truth-i-don-t-want-to-le_419989.jpg) > [And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/and-i-do-not-want-anymore-to-be-useful-to-be-docile-to-lead-children/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf1/mary-oliver-570_children_and-i-do-not-want-anymore-to-be-useful-t_2885860.jpg) > [And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/and-over-one-more-set-of-hills-along-the-sea-the-last-roses-have/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b5/mary-oliver-570_another-life_and-over-one-more-set-of-hills-along-the_3136922.jpg) > [Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/almost-anything-is-too-much-i-am-trying-in-my-poems-to-have-the/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/mary-oliver-570_books_almost-anything-is-too-much-i-am-trying_1889503.jpg) > [I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-want-to-think-again-of-dangerous-and-noble-things-i-want-to-be/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16d/mary-oliver-570_be-kind_i-want-to-think-again-of-dangerous-and-n_1870222.jpg) > [I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-know-death-is-the-fascinating-snake-under-the-leaves-sliding-and/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/mary-oliver-570_ache_i-know-death-is-the-fascinating-snake-un_1306114.jpg) > [Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/wherever-i-am-the-world-comes-after-me-it-offers-me-its-busyness-it/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8d/mary-oliver-570_believe_wherever-i-am-the-world-comes-after-me-i_2703694.jpg) > [It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/it-was-not-a-choice-of-writing-or-not-writing-it-was-a-choice-of/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/mary-oliver-570_choices_it-was-not-a-choice-of-writing-or-not-wr_563360.jpg) > [I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-want-to-write-something-so-simply-about-love-or-about-pain-that/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b3/mary-oliver-570_common_i-want-to-write-something-so-simply-abou_2718061.jpg) > [Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/tell-me-what-it-is-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/mary-oliver-570_amazement_tell-me-what-it-is-you-plan-to-do-with-y_2650059.jpg) > [The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/the-poet-dreams-of-the-classroom-i-dreamed-i-stood-up-in-class-and-i/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a0/mary-oliver-570_algebra_the-poet-dreams-of-the-classroom-i-dream_2689190.jpg) > [Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/ordinarily-i-go-to-the-woods-alone-with-not-a-single-friend-for-they/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/mary-oliver-570_black_ordinarily-i-go-to-the-woods-alone-with_891398.jpg) > [When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/when-it-s-over-i-want-to-say-all-my-life-i-was-a-bride-married-to/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/mary-oliver-570_amazement_when-it-s-over-i-want-to-say-all-my-life_533043.jpg) > [When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/when-death-comes-i-want-to-step-through-the-door-full-of-curiosity-2/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6f/mary-oliver-570_body_when-death-comes-i-want-to-step-through_1085544.jpg) > [Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/tom-dancer-s-gift-of-a-whitebark-pine-cone-you-never-know-what/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/mary-oliver-570_adore_tom-dancer-s-gift-of-a-whitebark-pine-co_1612192.jpg) > [Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/mornings-at-blackwater-for-years-every-morning-i-drank-from/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/mary-oliver-570_capable_mornings-at-blackwater-for-years-every-m_273638.jpg) > [I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-want-to-be-braver-and-more-honest-about-my-life-when-you-re/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d45/mary-oliver-570_abused_i-want-to-be-braver-and-more-honest-abou_2321105.jpg) > [You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/you-want-to-cry-aloud-for-your-mistakes-but-to-tell-the-truth-the/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5e/mary-oliver-570_aloud_you-want-to-cry-aloud-for-your-mistakes_204855.jpg) > [There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/there-are-a-hundred-paths-through-the-world-that-are-easier-than/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de2/mary-oliver-570_easier_there-are-a-hundred-paths-through-the-wo_3096903.jpg) > [I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-don-t-want-to-end-up-simply-having-visited-this-world/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/mary-oliver-570_ends_i-don-t-want-to-end-up-simply-having-vis_188952.jpg) > [I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-try-to-be-good-but-sometimes-a-person-just-has-to-break-out-and-act/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/mary-oliver-570_be-good_i-try-to-be-good-but-sometimes-a-person_3013009.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Mary Oliver > [Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/belief-isn-t-always-easy-but-this-much-i-have-learned-if-not-enough/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/in-this-universe-we-are-given-two-gifts-the-ability-to-love-and-the/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/poetry-is-one-of-the-original-arts-and-it-began-as-did-all-the-fine/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/the-dream-of-my-life-is-to-lie-down-by-a-slow-river-and-stare-at-the/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) > [Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/tell-me-what-is-it-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and-precious-life/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/all-important-ideas-must-include-the-trees-the-mountains-and-the/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/sometimes-i-think-were-i-just-a-little-rougher-made-i-would-go/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/first-snow-the-snow-began-here-this-morning-and-all-day-continued-its/) [mary oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/what-can-i-say-that-i-have-not-said-before-so-i-ll-say-it-again-the/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) > [The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/the-sea-is-the-most-beautiful-face-in-our-universe/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/there-is-nothing-better-than-work-work-is-also-play-children-know/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) > [“What will you do with your one precious, wild life?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/what-will-you-do-with-your-one-precious-wild-life/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/poetry-is-a-life-cherishing-force-for-poems-are-not-words-after-all/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-stood-like-adam-in-his-lonely-garden-on-that-first-morning-shaken/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/we-all-have-a-hungry-heart-and-one-of-the-things-we-hunger-for-is/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/mary-oliver/#itemlist", "name": "32 Want Quotes By Mary Oliver", "numberOfItems": 32, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. 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