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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Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – 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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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. – Mary Oliver

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If you dont mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and theres no poetry in that. – Glen Hansard

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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. – James Martineau

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Ive written some poetry I dont understand myself. – Carl Sandburg

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out…. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. – A.E. Housman

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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable.. – Giordano Bruno

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