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

“The Uses Of Sorrow”

“I know many lives worth living.”

““Why I Wake Early”

“You do not have to be good.”

“Look, the trees”

“If you’re John Muir you want trees to”

“You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.”

“even”

“Every angel is terrifying.”

“The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when she climbed the jungle (banned; replaced with "rain forest") gym. Then she had the nerve to call her an egghead and a bookworm (both banned as offensive; replaced with "intellectual") because she read fairy (banned because suggests homosexuality; replace with "elf") tales.”

“I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.”

“Not everything can be felt and not everything will be ever understood.”