Category - Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing – soften their roughest edges – to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It’s early work, derivative work.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

If I’ve done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

I’d rather write about polar bears than people.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

Poetry is meant to be heard.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

I like books that are fat and full.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

I’ve always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.

– Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

– Mary Oliver

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