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
letting-go rain want
And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.
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.
worry augustine
Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
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.
prayer great-men expecting
Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.
heart special-education break
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
dog naps body
I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark...
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.
stars destiny rivers
I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.
dog smell world
A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.
opportunity knows
You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
rivers imagination live-your-life
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.
love-yourself world special-education
Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.