Mary Oliver Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

  Mary Oliver

  Travel, Home, Way

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear

  Mary Oliver

  Gratitude, Sweet, Prayer

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

  Mary Oliver

  Home, Ambition, Wonderful

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.54, Beacon Press

• Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

  Mary Oliver

  Home, Islands, Risk

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

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