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Mary Oliver Quotes & Sayings
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21 entries tagged including 4 subtopics.
Last updated Apr 2024
Mary Oliver Topics
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This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.
Mary Oliver
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work
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Work quotes
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
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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.
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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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.
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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
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In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
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I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.
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I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
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I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
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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.
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
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Love is a lot like dancing-you just surrender to the music.
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Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.
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