Browse Mary Oliver quotes and sayings.
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for […]
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. Mary Oliver
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls […]
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Mary Oliver
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. Mary Oliver
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Mary Oliver
Another morning and I wake with the thirst for the goodness I do not have. […]
And just like that, like a simple neighborhood event, a miracle is taking place. Mary […]
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else […]
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. Mary Oliver
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver
Listen–are you breathing just a little, and calling it life? Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began. Mary Oliver
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious […]
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years […]