"When it's over I don't want to..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.”

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.”

“I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.”

“We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.”

“Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.”

“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”

“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”

“Self fulfillment thinks of how something serves me. Self development thinks of how something helps me to serve others. With self fulfillment, feeling good is the product. With self development, feeling good is the by-product.”

“I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”