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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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"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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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"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."
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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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"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
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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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