653 Quotes by Mary Oliver

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.

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.