Mary Oliver Quotes
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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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Whilst in ordinary life every shopkeeper is very well able to distinguish between what somebody professes to be and what he really is, our historians have not yet won even this trivial insight. They take every epoch at its word concerning what it says and imagines about itself.
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It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.
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There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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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.
