Mary Oliver Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

• You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Responsibility, Giving

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

• Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Travel, Breathing

  Mary Oliver (2006). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, p.149, Beacon Press

• Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Pay, Attention

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Sep 17, 2016

• To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Life, Relationship

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

• And I say to my heart: rave on.

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Heart, Enthusiasm

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.29, Beacon Press

• 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)

• What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Breathing, Purpose

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Dream, Lying

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.371, Penguin

• Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Disaster, Wells

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.71, Atlantic Monthly Press

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