"There is a notion that creative people..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.”

“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)”

“...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.”

“I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.”

“It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.”

“If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.”

“The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.”

“And to the rest of the worldGod gave you shoes to fit youSo put 'em on and wear 'emBe yourself man, be proud of who you areEven if it sounds cornyDon't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful”

“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”