--- title: "17 Way Quotes By Mary Oliver" description: "17 Way quotes by Mary Oliver. Plus more from Mary Oliver and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/mary-oliver-570_climbs_i-climb-i-backtrack-i-float-i-ramble-my_3231159.jpg" --- > [I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-climb-i-backtrack-i-float-i-ramble-my-way-home/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/mary-oliver-570_climbs_i-climb-i-backtrack-i-float-i-ramble-my_3231159.jpg) > [Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/isn-t-it-wonderful-the-way-the-world-holds-both-the-deeply-serious/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/mary-oliver-570_comedy_isn-t-it-wonderful-the-way-the-world-hol_3175658.jpg) > [I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-learn-a-lot-about-my-poems-when-i-read-them-by-the-way-people/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/mary-oliver-570_about_i-learn-a-lot-about-my-poems-when-i-read_1182926.jpg) > [I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-read-the-way-a-person-might-swim-to-save-his-or-her-life-i-wrote/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c5/mary-oliver-570_might_i-read-the-way-a-person-might-swim-to-sa_260877.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) > [It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/it-s-very-important-to-write-things-down-instantly-or-you-can-lose/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/mary-oliver-570_down_it-s-very-important-to-write-things-down_1150929.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/poetry-isn-t-a-profession-it-s-a-way-of-life-it-s-an-empty-basket-you/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/166/mary-oliver-570_career_poetry-isn-t-a-profession-it-s-a-way-of_2569702.jpg) > [To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/to-tell-you-the-truth-i-believe-everything-tigers-trees-stones-are/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f5/mary-oliver-570_believe_to-tell-you-the-truth-i-believe-everythi_1853616.jpg) > [It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/it-s-very-important-to-write-things-down-instantly-or-you-can-lose-2/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb0/mary-oliver-570_gone_it-s-very-important-to-write-things-down_2575118.jpg) > [I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-believe-art-is-utterly-important-it-is-one-of-the-things-that-could/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/864/mary-oliver-570_art_i-believe-art-is-utterly-important-it-is_1830818.jpg) > [All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/all-night-my-heart-makes-its-way-however-it-can-over-the-rough-ground/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/mary-oliver-570_all-night_all-night-my-heart-makes-its-way-however_2220880.jpg) > [The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/the-poet-must-not-only-write-the-poem-but-must-scrutinize-the-world/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/647/mary-oliver-570_doe_the-poet-must-not-only-write-the-poem-bu_2750649.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) > [If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/if-you-suddenly-and-unexpectedly-feel-joy-don-t-hesitate-give-in-to/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87e/mary-oliver-570_beauty-in-nature_if-you-suddenly-and-unexpectedly-feel-jo_1687383.jpg) > [I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-had-a-dog-who-loved-flowers-briskly-she-went-through-the-fields-yet/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b12/mary-oliver-570_air_i-had-a-dog-who-loved-flowers-briskly-sh_3232013.jpg) > [from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/from-the-complications-of-loving-you-i-think-there-is-no-end-or/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f85/mary-oliver-570_answers_from-the-complications-of-loving-you-i-t_1036067.jpg) > [I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/i-would-say-that-there-exists-a-thousand-unbreakable-links-between/) [Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad5/mary-oliver-570_chance_i-would-say-that-there-exists-a-thousand_2098443.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/mary-oliver/#itemlist", "name": "17 Way Quotes By Mary Oliver", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I climb, I backtrack. I float. 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