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About Mary Oliver
American poet
Mary Oliver was an American poet whose work reached wide audiences, and who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She is known for poetry shaped by close attention to the natural world. Her writing draws much of its force from nature, solitary walks, and a lasting sense of wonder. It is marked by vivid images, spiritual feeling, and plain language, qualities that made her one of the best-selling poets in American history.
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- “At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not in…”Mary Oliver
- “Poetry is meant to be heard.”Mary Oliver
- “Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to…”Mary Oliver
- “Last nightthe rainspoke to meslowly, saying, what joyto come fallingout of the brisk cloud, to be happy again…”Mary Oliver
Melancholy: more sayings
- “Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”Paulo Coelho
- “I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm a…”Townes Van Zandt
- “You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the p…”Jane Austen
Explore Bitterness
- “For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry stic…”Virginia Woolf
- “Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world…”Debasish Mridha
- “Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.”Richard Rohr
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Books by Mary Oliver
Poems
1992
Dog Songs
2014
A thousand mornings
2012
Blue horses
2014
Devotions
2017