"Language is, in other words, not necessary,..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.”

“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.”

“When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.”

“I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't.”

“Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!”

“The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.”

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”

“What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?”

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”