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With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

"Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver". Interview with Maria Shriver, www.oprah.com. March 09, 2011.

Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?

Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

"Listening to the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. October 15, 2015.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.129, Petrarca Press

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.11, Beacon Press

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

"Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.