"I have the feeling that a lot..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

“I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.”

“I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.”

“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”

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

“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”

“I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.”

“I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.”

“Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.”