Quotes by : Mary Oliver

Poem (the spirit likes to dress up) The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes,shoulders,....

The Pond"August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sunand the lilies again are spread....

Athletes take care of their bodies. Writers must similarly take care of the sensibility that houses the....

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the....

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against....

MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing....

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One person....

I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes....

Look, the treesare turningtheir own bodiesinto pillarsof light,are giving off the richfragrance of cinnamonand....