Zitate von Mary Oliver
1 0Mary Oliver
Geburtstag: 10. September 1935
Andere Namen:مری الیور
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Mary Oliver ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Pulitzer-Preis-Trägerin.
Zitate Mary Oliver
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„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.“
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
"In Blackwater Woods"
„Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?“
— Mary Oliver
Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
„I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.“
— Mary Oliver
Context: I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
"Evidence"
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„I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.“
— Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
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„I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.“
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
„Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.“
— Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
„You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace.“
— Mary Oliver
Context: You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
"Sand Dabs, Five"
