"What I have done is learn to..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

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

“In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.”

“Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.”

“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.”

“The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.”

“Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”

“There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.”

“I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.”

“I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.”