"I know many lives worth living...." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.”

“I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.”

“Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.”

“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”

“Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.”

“The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.”

“I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.”

“that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.”

“Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.”