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
sentences aspire
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
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.
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.