Mary Oliver Quotes About Poetry
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The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
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Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.
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Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.
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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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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
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Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.
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