Mary Oliver Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.61, Beacon Press

• Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Humble, World

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Oct 16, 2011

• To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

• There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Marriage, World

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

• You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Animal

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.14, Atlantic Monthly Press

• 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.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Wedding, Gratitude

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

• I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Mean

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

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