"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of……" — Mary Oliver
"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."
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Mary Oliver
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210 Quotes by Mary Oliver
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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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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
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I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got…
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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