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Mary Oliver Quotes

American - Poet | September 10, 1935 -

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.

Day Job Effort Me Believe Why

I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.

Confused Attention House Too Much Up

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

Soul Fool Yourself You Lot

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

Life Think My Life Powerful Early

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Family Childhood Words World Hard

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

Alone House Down Want Hill Hand

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

Art Believe Important I Believe Us

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

Life Good Beach Day Book You

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

Time College Learn You Too Much How

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

You Find New Different Word Alert

There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

Work Children People Grow Better

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

You Flow Swim Pray Inward How

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