653 Quotes by Mary Oliver

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

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.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

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 believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.