Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.”
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”
“Today is a day like any other: twenty-four hours, a little sunshine, a little rain. Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another—why don’t you get going? For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don’t want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money, I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.”
“Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.”
“DON’T HESITATE If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
“Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”
“I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
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