More From Mary Oliver
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Work
- "When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."― Maxim Gorky
- "For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work."― Jessica Savitch
- "Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."― Robert Fulghum