"I try to be good but sometimes..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“Oh, yesterday, that one, we all cry out. Oh, that one! How rich and possible everything was! How ripe, ready, lavish, and filled with excitement--how hopeful we were on those summer days, under the clean, white racing clouds. Oh, yesterday!”

“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.”

“But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?”

“If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.”

“I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.”

“For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.”

“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”

“If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.”

“Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you”