"There are a hundred paths through the..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.”

“The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.”

“I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.”

“You might not understand but i gave you the best of me.”

“At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.”

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

“When you choose a habit, you also choose the end of that habit.”

“It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.”

“Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.”