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
soul firsts attention
This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
feelings attention reports
Attention without feeling--is only a report.
motivational attention devotion
Attention is the beginning of devotion.
attention end-of-life ends
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
prayer attention how-precious-life-is
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention...
work positivity attention
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
life attention pay
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
plan precious wild
Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?
breathing
What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places?
children earnestly people sorrow work
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
spiritual order world
You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.
writing wanted
I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
growing-up children play
Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
art wilderness fine
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.