More quotes by Mary Oliver

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force."
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
"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."
"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."