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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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Mary Oliver
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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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I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didnt read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. – Peter Porter

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery

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