Mary Oliver Quotes and its meanings

What does Mary Oliver write about?

Mary Oliver has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about alone, amazing, happiness, love, morning, poetry, time, wedding & work. People always share Alone quotes, Amazing quotes, happiness, love, morning, poetry, time, wedding & work from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Mary Oliver?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Mary Oliver.

• I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
• When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
• We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
• To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
• It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.
• 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.
• I simply do not distinguish between work and play.