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
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.
childhood world dysfunctional-family
With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
people creative world
There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.
way serious world
Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
real world
Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.
voice world determined
...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save.
morning shining world
Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?
world
My work is loving the world.
airplane world firsts
Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.
world beauty-of-the-world saved
I got saved by poetry and I got saved by the beauty of the 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.
how-to-love world this-world
There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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.
love-yourself world special-education
Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.