Mary Oliver Quotes

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

I love diving into the unknown. That's been my M.O. ever since I was a kid.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

I like adventure.

There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.