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Mary Oliver
"....and I also feel very strongly that in the other art disciplines the apprenticeship is expected. You learn about immaterial, you learn about different colors, you copy things, you imitate, you, as – – said you teach your hands to do it.
And with poetry to teach your mind to know things. Like the sound of words, some are very soft, and then the mutes for example, are very hard words.
And I would always start by saying what’s the difference between a rock and a stone, it’s the sound. So I went a great deal into sound."
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
“Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am
to be blessed.”
“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”