Poetry Quote by Mary Oliver — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The Uses Of Sorrow”

“Let me keep my distance, always, from those”

“I went down not long ago”

“Look, the trees”

“I know many lives worth living.”

“When”

“I wait on my fix:”

“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”

“In a serener Bright,”

“Even the most political poem is an act of faith.”

“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

“In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.”