Best Mary Oliver Sayings
- If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much. Ever Gone
- Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever… Almost Unhearable
- And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to… All
- Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you… Adore
- You must not ever stop being whimsical. Ever Stop
- Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. Dog
- A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist. Adorable
- A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. Almost Nothing
- I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings. Giving
- If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much… Believe
- In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that. College
- I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. Fruitful
- One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. Clear
- People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. Fancy
- Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious. Arena
- The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something… Down
- Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile. Awhile
- The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform… Familiar
- What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day? Beautiful
- Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine? Augustine
- The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. Attention
- I got saved by poetry and I got saved by the beauty of the world. Beauty
- Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones… Allegiance
- Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really… All
- It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else. Nature
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