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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 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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Happiness
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Its very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I cant wait until morning – itll be gone. – Mary Oliver

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. – Robert Morgan

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