Great Writing Quotes by Author Mary Oliver
Instructions for living a life./Pay attention./Be astonished./Tell about it.
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has taken for subject.
If the poem is thin, it is likely so not because the poet does not know enough words, but because he or she has not stood long enough among the flowers – has not seen them in any fresh, exciting, and valid way.
The language of the poem is the language of particulars.
…the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.
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