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Mary Oliver
Poetry, Adjectives, Verbs

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.

Mary Oliver
Art, Mean, Poetry
Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Mary Oliver
Poetry, Way, Empty

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

Mary Oliver
Spiritual, Poetry, Curiosity
Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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