Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Mary Oliver
- Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
- Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
- I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
- You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
- I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.
- Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.
- I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
- The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
- You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.
- Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled— to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was an American poet who gained widespread recognition for her profound and accessible observations of the natural world. She was born in Maple Heights, Ohio, and spent much of her childhood outdoors exploring the nearby forests and fields. Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, but left both schools without receiving a degree.
Oliver’s first collection of poetry, “No Voyage and Other Poems,” was published in 1963, and she went on to write numerous other books of poetry and essays. Her work often reflects her love of nature and her interest in the spiritual dimensions of life. Among her most popular books are “New and Selected Poems,” “Dream Work,” and “A Thousand Mornings.”
Over the course of her career, Oliver received many accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984 and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1992. She also taught writing at various colleges and universities, including Case Western Reserve University and Bennington College.
Oliver passed away in 2019 at the age of 83, but her poetry continues to inspire and resonate with readers around the world.
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