Quote by Mary Oliver
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliv

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. – Mary Oliver

Other quotes by Mary Oliver

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 spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. – Mary Oliver

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Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. – Mary Oliver

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If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. – Sarah Bernhardt

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. – Albert Schweitzer

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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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