"Poetry is a life-cherishing force." — Mary Oliver
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force."
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Mary Oliver
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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 Cherish Quotes
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
— John Adams
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is…
— John Quincy Adams
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
— Wendell Berry
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
— Barbara Bush
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I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that…
— Wilford Brimley
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the…
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this…
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not…
— Michael Chertoff
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I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He…
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With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but…
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like…
— Louise Erdrich
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