Mary Oliver Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 17, 2017

• Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.61, Beacon Press

• On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Mean, Doe

• Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Distance, Thinking

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.62, Beacon Press

• I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Jan 17, 2017

• 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

• You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Animal

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.14, Atlantic Monthly Press

• And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Morning

• I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Mean

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

• When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if 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.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Life, Real

  "When Death Comes" l. 24 (1992)

• And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Busy

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin