Inspirational Quotes by Mary Oliver — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone”

“Why I Wake Early”

“There are things you can’t reach. But”

“In the winter I am writing about, there was much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness of event, darkness of spirit. The sprawling darkness of not knowing. We speak of the light of reason. I would speak here of the light of ________. But I don't know what to call it. Maybe faith, but not a shaped faith - only, say, a gesture, or a continuum of gestures.”

“Percy wakes me (fourteen)”

“All morning it has been raining.”

“Instructions for living a life.”

“Gannets”

“When”

“Dogfish”

“I went down not long ago”

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

“The Summer Day”

“At Blackwater Pond”

“If you’re John Muir you want trees to”

“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.”

“Sleeping In The Forest”

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force.”

“When it over, I want to say:all my life”

“from the poem”

“So come to the pond,”

“Poem (the spirit likes to dress up)”

“And then I feel the sun itself”

“Look, the trees”

“Sometimes I dream”

“Though I play at the edges of knowing,”

“oxygen”

“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted”

“The Old Poets Of China”

“The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary Oliver”

“I know many lives worth living.”

“Love Sorrow”

“the stars began to burn”

“The poet dreams of the mountain”

“Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me”

“I Worried”

“From the complications of loving you”

“In Blackwater Woods”

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”

“The Poet With His Face In His Hands”

“I Go Down To The Shore”

“Still, what I want in my life”

“The Uses Of Sorrow”

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.”

“How I go to the wood”

“The Journey”

“to live in this world”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do”

“You do not have to be good.”

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

“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the”

“Another morning and I wake with thirst”

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

““When it's over, I want to say: all my life”

““Why I Wake Early”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”