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Mary Oliver Quotes

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.

Mary Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Alone House Down Want Hill Hand

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

Jim Sullivan

Remember Ask Names Just Instrumental

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

John Crowley

Women Struggle Men Simplicity Try

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

Robert Plant

Yourself You Golden Stepping Repeat

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

John Wayne

Communication Slow Too Much Say Talk

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

Mirko Cro Cop

Myself People Hurt Serious Heavy

Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it.

Lisa Lutz

Police Woman Writing Powerful Career

I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

Jay Parini

Wife Year House Village Right Study

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

Donna Rice

Day Me Dinner Night Phone Group

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

Debbie Ford

Life Positive Past Thinking You New

Everyone has an image of a premature child, but until you live it and experience it, you just don't know how bad it is.

David Silva

Live Experience Child You Bad Know

I get plenty of credit out on the road.

Cole Swindell

Road Credit Out Get Plenty

I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

Anne Wojcicki

Change I Am Stubborn I Am What I Am