Best Mary Oliver Words
- I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think… Choreography
- I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not… All
- I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great… Better
- Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? Breathing
- Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems. Alligator
- You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound. Aloud
- The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus. Face
- Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Adore
- It is better for the heart to break, than not to break. Better
- Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness,… Day
- Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces… Best
- My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums... Blue
- I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. End
- Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Astonished
- GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and… Argue
- The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own. Began
- I know many lives worth living. Funny
- I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of… Break
- The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to… Came
- For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the… All
- ...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,… Company
- I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness… Antidote
- 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
- So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you. Beautiful
- I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. Death
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