"Look, I want to love this worldas..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“All my lifeI have been restless--I have felt there is somethingmore wonderful than gloss--than wholeness--than staying at home.”

“There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.”

“Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.”

“If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd”

“I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

“Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.”

“You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.”

“But O, sick children of the world,Of all the many changing thingsIn dreary dancing past us whirled,To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,Words alone are certain good.”

“For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.”