Mary Oliver Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light

  Mary Oliver

  Eye, Light, Wings

• LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT (PERCY THREE) He puts his cheek against mine and makes small, expressive sounds. And when I'm awake, or awake enough he turns upside down, his four paws in the air and his eyes dark and fervent. Tell me you love me, he says. Tell me again. Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over he gets to ask it. I get to tell.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Eye, Dark

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.43, Penguin

• Belief isn't always easy.
  But this much I have learned---
  if not enough else---
  to live with my eyes open.

  Mary Oliver

  Eye, Belief, Easy

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.72, Beacon Press

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