"We all have a hungry heart, and..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.”

“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.”

“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.”

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”

“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”

“Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!”

“He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.”

“I long for truth, and yetI cannot stay from thatMy better self disowns,For a man's attentionBrings such satisfactionTo the craving in my bones.”

“She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.”