Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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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.

Tags: Life, Over, Married

Mary Oliver

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

Tags: Laughter, Sound, Temple

Mary Oliver

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Tags: Success, Food, Fight

Mary Oliver

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.

Tags: Important, Thinking, Down

Mary Oliver

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.

Tags: Life, Put, Empty

Mary Oliver

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Tags: Play, Between, Simply

Mary Oliver