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Mary Oliver

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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Mary Oliver
"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."

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"If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer."

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"I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write."

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"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."

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"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."

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"In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that."

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"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

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"I simply do not distinguish between work and play."

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"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."

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"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."

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