More quotes by Mary Oliver

"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"