Best Mary Oliver Quotations
- You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you. Funny
- The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who… Answers
- You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion. Anew
- A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life. Beauty
- My work is loving the world. Funny
- I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as… Career
- Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Boots
- Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. Children
- I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept… Arranging
- In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling. Beholden
- Invention hovers always a little above the rules. Hovers
- The language of the poem is the language of particulars. Funny
- Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with… Agitate
- When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. Consider
- To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing… Able
- Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Inspiration
- When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into… All
- I simply do not distinguish between work and play. Distinguish
- I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. Better
- To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Attention
- We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed… All
- Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group… Accommodate
- So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. Flow
- 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 out of that. Basket
- To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it. Accurate
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