Mary Oliver Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think— no, you will realize— that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.

  Mary Oliver

  Pain, Reading, Writing

• Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Mean, Poetry

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

  Mary Oliver

  Feelings, Mind, Inquiring

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

  Mary Oliver

  Taken, America, Feelings

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

  Mary Oliver

  Thinking, Feelings, Lines

• Attention without feeling is only a report.

  Mary Oliver

  Feelings, Attention, Reports

  "Listening to the World". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. October 15, 2015.

• Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

  Mary Oliver

  Ideas, Poetry, Feelings

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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