Mary Oliver Quotes
Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
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It took guts for Noah to build the ask because it had never rained. Got watered the earth with a mist.
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There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
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Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.
