Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliveris an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 September 1935
CityMaple Heights, OH
CountryUnited States of America
world want this-world
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
nature stars voice
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
needs ache worthy
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.
stars fall snow
Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.
serendipity grace luck
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.
love-yourself world special-education
Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.
able wanted know-how
Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
nature tree
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
ideas doubt wonderful
We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.
attitude blessed needs
Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
world weight want
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.
world beauty-of-the-world saved
I got saved by poetry and I got saved by the beauty of the world.
children want fields
And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.
powerful writing doe
Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.