653 Quotes by Mary Oliver

All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.

There is only one question: / how to love this world.

Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark...