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Quote by Mary Oliver

“We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.”

Quote by Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver is a renowned American poet, born on September 10, 1935. Her poetry is known for its profound depiction of the natural world and delicate insights into life. Oliver's style is simple and direct, which has won her a wide audience. more

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“Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.”

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“Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.”

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“... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.”

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“In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.”

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“A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.”

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“Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.”

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“Symmetry is for God, not for us.”

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“I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.”

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