Mary Oliver Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

  Mary Oliver

  Giving, Joy, Feels

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.49, Beacon Press

• If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Fighting, Love Is

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.68, Penguin

• We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
  What a time they have, these two
  housed as they are in the same body.

  Mary Oliver

  Grief, Two, Joy

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.13, Beacon Press

• Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)

  Mary Oliver

  Joy, Crumbs, Made

• How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Grief, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.132, Penguin

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