Quotes by : Mary Oliver

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason....

When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was a bridegroom, taking....

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

Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.He has slept all night under the covers.Now....

Wild GeeseYou do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through....

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without....

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching,....

Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

to live in this worldyou must be ableto do three thingsto love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your....

A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August.....