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Out Quotes by Mary Oliver
- What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
- My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
- This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
- It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that…
- Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.
- I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
- Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
- 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.
- 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…
- Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This…
- from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only…
- And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of…
- There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea…
- The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full…
- And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money,…
- I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in…
- I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read…
- Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until…
- I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to…
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