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

“At Blackwater Pond”

“oxygen”

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

“I went down not long ago”

“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.”

“Gannets”

“I think it’s beautiful”

“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

“i want to be”

“]Sardis”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“In this quiet place on a quiet street”