"Every day I see or hear something..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.”

“A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.”

“It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.”

“Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.”

“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”

“To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?”

“There is no place more delightful than home.”

“It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”

“There where the course is,Delight makes all of the one mind,The riders upon the galloping horses,The crowd that closes in behind.”