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
morning mean night
There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.
morning kindness fields
Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
inspirational mean want
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
giving joy feels
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.
life dream lying
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
wonderful sometimes stop-time
I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us...
inspirational beautiful morning
And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?
weed blue voice
Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
love life relationship
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
marriage world want
There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
life heart rave
And I say to my heart: rave on.
life responsibility giving
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
dream heart imagination
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
morning lucky persons
It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.