Mary Oliver Quotes

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Mary Oliver

Profession : Poet

Birth : September 10, 1935

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Mary Oliver

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

Mary Oliver

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

Mary Oliver

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.

Mary Oliver