Quotes by Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

Explore a curated collection of 9 quotes by Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.He has slept all night under the covers.Now he’s eager for ac — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns dest — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then.So I try not to miss anything.I think, in — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
The poet dreams of the mountainSometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts.I want to climb some o — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinkingof sitting out on the sand to watchthe moon rise. F — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
On the beach, at dawn:Four small stones clearlyHugging each other.How many kinds of loveMight there be in the world,And — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
In your handsThe dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive.Who would argue otherwise?But now, after years of cons — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
How heron comesIt is a negligence of the mindnot to notice how at duskheron comes to the pond andstands there in his dea — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine coneYou never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you.O — Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems