About Mary Oliver
1935 – 2019
American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner (1984), known for her nature poetry, including 'The Summer Day'.
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“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
“Far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!”