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

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alone
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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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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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I have had much to learn from Swedens poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. – Knut Hamsun

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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

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The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles. – Placido Domingo

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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. – William Glasser

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