Mary Oliver Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

  Mary Oliver

  Language

• Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

  Mary Oliver

  Spiritual, Poetry, Curiosity

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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