"Snow was falling, so much like stars..." - 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.
More by Mary Oliver
“I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark.”
“Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!What a taskto askof anything, or anyone,yet it is ours,and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.”
“It's not a competition, it's a doorway.”
More on Nature
“We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.”
“Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.”
“The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.”
More on Beauty
“The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.”
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
“That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.”