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

“Gannets”

“I went down not long ago”

“Sometimes I dream”

“The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary Oliver”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do”

“But first and foremost, I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple—or a green field—a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing—an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness—wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company.”

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

“beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.”

“You broke me”

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams”

“In the dark I rest,”