Mary Oliver Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Want, Fields

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

• As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Reading, Substance

• Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Growing Up, Play

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