Mary Oliver Quotes About Spring

Quotes about: Spring

• Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

  Mary Oliver

  Spring, Forever, Doe

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.30, Penguin

• I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.

  Mary Oliver

  Spring, Thinking, Years

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.62, Atlantic Monthly Press

• Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.39, Penguin

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