"I want to be braver and more..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.”

“Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.”

“Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.”

“When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.”

“The very best approach to medicine is, "Well, I see your physical body is sick, what's been bothering you? What are you worried about? What are you angry about? What are you frustrated about?" Because that is what is at the root of all of this. And then say, "Let it go, let it go, let it go." That's the message, and if they could hear you and do that, then they would all be well right away.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.”

“The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.”

“You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.”