Mary Oliver Quotes

The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. Their indifference to us ought to serve as a chastening reminder that we're not the measure of all things.

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.

My entire life, I've had one mission to prove. It doesn't matter what your name is. It doesn't matter where you're from. It doesn't matter what the color of your skin is. All that matters is what's in your heart.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are.

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.