Mary Oliver Quotes

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Mary Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1935

Topics

LifeLoveLiveTimeWorldYou

Forgiveness, in some cases, is a flipping miracle in the sense that you're fighting, and suddenly something happens. It's a kind of grace. Whether you believe in God or not, something happens, and it's transformative.

Ann Dowd

ForgivenessGodGraceBelieveYou

I want to be an artist. I don't want to be a celebrity.

Amber Heard

ArtistWantCelebrity

Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

Stephen Marley

LifePositiveMusicLightMeYou

It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again? Really? I never set out with that intention.'

Stephen Merchant

PeopleMeComedyDoingIntention

It's really fun to have a convection oven, even it if it's a little convection toaster oven. It really changes the way you bake.

Tom Douglas

FunYouWayChangesLittleEven

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

Michel Gondry

InternetTryingPhoneLightsColour

I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.

Judith Rodin

InnovationThinkNewKindProduct

I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in 'Times' combat photos.

David Shields

WarSeeingGorgeousSomethingAlmost

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Brian Ferneyhough

PastSan DiegoYearsQuestioningSan

I support equal rights and equal dignity for all.

Alice Eve

CompassionSupportDeepBruce

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

Scott Baio

WomenLosingRegretAlwaysFault

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

GoodTruthHumorWantVirtueReal

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