To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
"It is better for the heart to break, than not to break."
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force."
"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."
"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift."
"the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own"