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

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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 need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. – Mary Oliver

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Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver

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Is there anything more loyal than the sun? – Mary Oliver

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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. – Allen Tate

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man cant touch. – E. M. Forster

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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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