Mary Oliver quotes - page 6

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. (Mary Oliver)

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

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

Mary Oliver

I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

Mary Oliver

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

Mary Oliver

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

Mary Oliver

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver

Occupation: American Poet
Born: September 10, 1935
Died: January 17, 2019
Quotes count: 132
Wikipedia: Mary Oliver

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