Top 62 Quotes by Mary Oliver

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

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.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.