Mary Oliver Poetry

in honor of Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver and her beautiful poems.

*not Oliver's official account

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"You listen and you know you could live a better life than you do. Be softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will be able to do it."

[LesMotsBleus @PourquoiPasToi]

It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.
(Mary Oliver)
-📷Zoi-

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"There is the summoning world, the admirable energies of the world, better than anger, better than bitterness."

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"Softest of mornings, hello. And what will you do today, I wonder, to my heart?"

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"I live in music, in words, in the fires of the heart."

[غادة الأشْوَح @Ghadaelashwahh]

Moments by Mary Oliver #Words

[Yogita Raj Rana @yogsrana]

Mary Oliver ❤️

[Jo @wtfisapoet]

Mary Oliver

[john zbigniew guzlowski @johnguzlowski]

I worried — by Mary Oliver

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"I do not want to be frisky, and theatrical.
I do not want to go forward in the parade of names.
I do not want to be diligent or necessary or in any way heavy.
From my mouth to God’s ear, I swear it; I want only to be a song."

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"Be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part."

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better."

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private."

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about."

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"Our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing."

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul."

#valentinesday

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"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."

#HappyValentinesDay

[Mary Oliver Poetry @MaOlPoetry]

"Last night the rain spoke to me
slowly, saying, what joy
to come falling
out of the brisk cloud, 
to be happy again in a new way
on the earth!"