Mary Oliver quotes - page 6

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. (Mary Oliver)
You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. View quote
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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay. View quote
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart. View quote
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone. View quote
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Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. View quote
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else. View quote
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