Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
Mary Oliver On Wild Geese
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019) 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. Tell me about despair, yours, and I …
Mary Oliver On Attention
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019) It has frequently been remarked, about my own writings, that I emphasize the notion of attention. This began simply enough: to see that the way the flicker flies is greatly different from the way the swallow plays in the golden air of summer. It was my …
Mary Oliver On The Journey
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019)🌹 One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!"each …
Mary Oliver On Inner Vision
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 -) My loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive. If I have a meeting with you at three o’clock, rejoice if I am late. Rejoice even more if I do not arrive at all... There is no other way work of artistic worth can be …
Mary Oliver On One Or Two Things
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 -) 1 Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. 2 The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of the leaves delicately, and well enough to get it where it wants to go, wherever that is, stopping here and there to fuzzle the damp throats of flowers and the …
Mary Oliver On Creativity
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
Mary Oliver On Needing A Prod
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 -) The Fourth Sign Of The Zodiac I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you’re in it all the same. So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it. There is so much to admire, to weep over. And to write music or poems …
Mary Oliver On Life
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 -) In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to …
Mary Oliver On The Journey
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019) One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!"each voice cried. But you didn't …
