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

“Let me keep my distance, always, from those”

“Look, the trees”

“The Uses Of Sorrow”

“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.”

“When”

“Sometimes I dream”

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”

““Kiss a lover,”

“Eight full lives,” I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. “Eight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? You're not of my species. How can you be my partner?”

““If you walked away from a”

““Would he find her?”

“All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.”