As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 1
I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
I simply do not distinguish between work and play. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
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. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0