Mary Oliver Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Sweet, Soul

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 28, 2017

• And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Care, Looks

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Attention, Firsts

• You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Doubt, Rowing

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Listening, My Own

• Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

  Mary Oliver

  Differences, Soul, Stubborn

  Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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