"People want poetry. They need poetry. They get……" — Mary Oliver
"People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work."
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210 Quotes by Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver has 210 quotes on this site.
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Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or…
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Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.
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Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious…
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as…
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Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being…
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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More Fancy Quotes
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
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I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy…
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I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a…
— Drew Barrymore
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I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want…
— Drew Barrymore
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
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I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
— Glenn Beck
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My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the…
— Ben Affleck
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They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat,…
— Jo Brand
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The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
— Steve Carell
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When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted…
— Benjamin Carson
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