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

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”

“The Uses Of Sorrow”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do”

““Why I Wake Early”

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

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force.”

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“When poetry becomes synonymous with examination stress, it is unsurprising that readers abandon it once formal education ends.”

“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.”

“She found herself”

“My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone, for reasones unknow to me.”

“Moonlight and high wind.”