"We need beauty because it makes us..." - Quote by Mary Oliver
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.
More by Mary Oliver
“My work is loving the world.”
“...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.”
“Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.”