Mary Oliver Quotes About Rain

Quotes about: Rain

• And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

  Mary Oliver

  Letting Go, Rain, Want

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rain, Law

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.49, Penguin

• At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?

  Mary Oliver

  Beautiful, Rain, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.236, Beacon Press

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