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Mary Oliver Quotes

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that Picture Quote #1

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work Picture Quote #1

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray Picture Quote #1

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response Picture Quote #1

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves Picture Quote #1

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled - to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world Picture Quote #1

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The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time Picture Quote #1

You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it Picture Quote #1

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light Picture Quote #1

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound Picture Quote #1

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed Picture Quote #1

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? Picture Quote #1

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To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it Picture Quote #1

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write Picture Quote #1

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read Picture Quote #1

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems Picture Quote #1

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness Picture Quote #1

And now I understand something so frightening and wonderful - how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar Picture Quote #1

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My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums Picture Quote #1

The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own Picture Quote #1

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry Picture Quote #1

So every day so every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you Picture Quote #1

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive Picture Quote #1

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Picture Quote #1

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Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly Picture Quote #1

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too Picture Quote #1

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building Picture Quote #1

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings Picture Quote #1

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven Picture Quote #1

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire Picture Quote #1

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In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that (Mary Oliver Quotes) My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work (Mary Oliver Quotes) So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray (Mary Oliver Quotes) 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 Quotes) You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves (Mary Oliver Quotes) Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled - to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world (Mary Oliver Quotes) The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time (Mary Oliver Quotes) You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it (Mary Oliver Quotes) Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light (Mary Oliver Quotes) You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound (Mary Oliver Quotes) I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed (Mary Oliver Quotes) What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? (Mary Oliver Quotes) To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it (Mary Oliver Quotes) I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write (Mary Oliver Quotes) I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read (Mary Oliver Quotes) Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems (Mary Oliver Quotes) Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness (Mary Oliver Quotes) And now I understand something so frightening and wonderful - how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar (Mary Oliver Quotes) My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums (Mary Oliver Quotes) The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own (Mary Oliver Quotes) For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry (Mary Oliver Quotes) So every day so every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you (Mary Oliver Quotes) But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive (Mary Oliver Quotes) Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? (Mary Oliver Quotes) Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly (Mary Oliver Quotes) I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too (Mary Oliver Quotes) The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building (Mary Oliver Quotes) I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings (Mary Oliver Quotes) What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven (Mary Oliver Quotes) Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire (Mary Oliver Quotes)

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