“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver Quotes
1935 – 2019
American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner (1984), known for her nature poetry, including 'The Summer Day'.
21 quotesAbout Mary Oliver on Wikipedia
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds.”
“Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?”
“Am I not among the early risers and the long-distance walkers?”
“What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.”
“You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace.”
“Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“Two or three times in my life I discovered love. Each time it seemed to solve everything.”
“Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest.”
