Logo
Quote by Mary Oliver
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to lov

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

Other quotes by Mary Oliver

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver

Category:
alone
Author
Mary Oliver
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Mary Oliver
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Wise Words
category

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)

Category:
Wise Words

Whatever you are, try to be a good one. – William Makepeace Thackeray

Category:
Wise Words

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Wise Words

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

Category:
Wise Words

Random Quotes

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Category:
Patience

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation. – Queen Rania of Jordan

Category:
Travel

Marriage is not a word — it is a sentence. – Author Unknown

Category:
Marriage

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. – J.R.R. Tolkien

Category:
Faith