"You never know / What opportunity /..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.”

“At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.”

“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”

“Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.”

“Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.”

“It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.”

“I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.”

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”

“Someone is going to develop a plan that will take them into the future of their dreams. Let it be you.”