"He is exactly the poem I wanted..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.”

“For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.”

“I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.”

“I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.”

“Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.”

“You have the Best Of Me.”

“But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.”

“Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.”

“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”