Tag: Mary Oliver
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I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.
Mary Oliver
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Words have not only a definition… but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.
Mary Oliver
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It’s very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can’t wait until morning – it’ll be gone.
Mary Oliver
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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Mary Oliver
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Apparently, I’ve been considered a recluse.
Mary Oliver
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To tell you the truth, I believe everything – tigers, trees, stones – are sentient in one way or another. You’d never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.
Mary Oliver
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I consider myself kind of a reporter – one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
Mary Oliver
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Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver
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I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
Mary Oliver
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
Mary Oliver