Quotes by Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

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I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple -- or a green field -- a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in — Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
Attention is the beginning of devotion. — Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its gras — Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the doo — Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and in which to feel. — Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only the sour, metallic — Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays