About Quote by Mary Oliver Download Open image “I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.” — Mary Oliver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Learn People Poetry Read Way
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring… — William Anderson Copy Share Image
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers. • To understand many things you must reach out of your own condition.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“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… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“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… — mary oliver Copy Share Image
“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… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon… — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
