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

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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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Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. – Frank Tyger

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A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis…. I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis. – E.B. White (1899–1985)

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Leo Aikman

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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St

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