58 Quotes by Mary Oliver about Poetry

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    When it over, I want to say:all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.When it's over, I don't want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular,and real.I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,or full of argument.I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.from "When the death comes

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    I am a performing artist; I perform admiration.'Come with me', I want my poems to say. 'And do the same

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  • Author Mary Oliver
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    I am a performing artist; I perfomr admiration.'Come with me', I want my poems to say. 'And do the same

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