"Sing, if you can sing, and it..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.”

“Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?”

“We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.”

“Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.”

“Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.”

“What can be explained is not poetry.”

“I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.”

“I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.”

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”