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
uprising people creative
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
sentences aspire
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
what-matters mind let-me
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
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.
mistake world want
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
humility mind glare
In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
humble cherish heaviness
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
crafts poet interest
A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.
fifty feels forty
In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.
be-good exuberance
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
rushing mind wonderful
And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.