Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver
Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. – Mary Oliver
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
There is hardly a place where, in the course of a year, some things are not purchased and never used, and where spring cleaning does not unearth them. Spring is the time when the good housewife puts all doubtful things into the trash barrel. – E.F. White, “Spring Soda Fountain Thoughts,” 1908 [a little altered —t^