Quote by Mary Oliver
Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket y

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

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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science. – Georges Seurat

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. – Frederick William Robertson

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Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell

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I look for poetry in English because its the only language I read. – Jack Prelutsky

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