"In my own work, I usually revise..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.”

“The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.”

“Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.”

“People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'”

“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”

“It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.”

“One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.”

“If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?”

“Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.”