"Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?”

“Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.”

“I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.”

“I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.”

“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”

“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”

“I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.”

“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)”

“Lie on your back and look at the stars.”