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
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.
inspirational life real
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this 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.
heart special-education break
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
marriage world want
There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
inspirational mean want
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
details devotion renewal
You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.
how-to-love world this-world
There is only one question: / how to love this world.
names fire sunrise
Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.
love inspirational mean
I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.