Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing – soften their roughest edges – to accommodate themselves toward a group response. Mary Oliver Read Quote
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and… almost involuntary in my life. Mary Oliver Read Quote
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don’t want fancy work. Mary Oliver Read Quote
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. Mary Oliver Read Quote
Wasn’t it Emerson who said, ‘My life is for itself and not for a spectacle’? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private. Mary Oliver Read Quote
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they’re full of bicycle trails. Mary Oliver Read Quote
Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious. Mary Oliver Read Quote
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation. Mary Oliver Read Quote
