Mary Oliver Quotes about Imagination

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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Mary Oliver

Dream, Heart, Imagination

Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.43, Beacon Press

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

Mary Oliver

Rivers, Imagination, Enjoy Life

Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

Mary Oliver

Lonely, Imagination, Wild Geese

Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.9, Beacon Press

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.

Mary Oliver

Art, Believe, Imagination

Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

Mary Oliver

Lying, Imagination, Heaven

Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Lonely, Nature, Imagination

Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”

Mary Oliver Quotes about Imagination

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