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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.

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

Mary Oliver
Feelings, Mind, Inquiring
Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Attention without feeling is only a report.

Mary Oliver
Feelings, Attention, Reports
"Listening to the World". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. October 15, 2015.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Mary Oliver
Thinking, Feelings, Lines

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Mary Oliver
Ideas, Poetry, Feelings
Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

Mary Oliver
Taken, America, Feelings
Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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