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

“Look, the trees”

““When it's over, I want to say: all my life”

“As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious”

“You do not have to be good.”

“Another morning and I wake with thirst”

“Still, what I want in my life”

“I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.”

“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.”

“This, this indeed is to be accursed,”

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow”

“it was the kind of moon”