Tag: Mary Oliver
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Writers must… take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
Mary Oliver
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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.
Mary Oliver
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver
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At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.
Mary Oliver
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I’ve always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
Mary Oliver
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When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
Mary Oliver
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing – soften their roughest edges – to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver
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The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they’re full of bicycle trails.
Mary Oliver
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To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
Mary Oliver
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Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.
Mary Oliver