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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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. – Mary Oliver

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Wise Words
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When its over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. – Mary Oliver

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amazing
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. – Alfred Douglas

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Poetry

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesnt. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. – Jack Prelutsky

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Poetry

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In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come. – Walter Lang

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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. – Bertolt Brecht

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Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me free you shall be. – Ramakrishna

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