+ It’s not a competition, it’s a doorway. Feraz Zeid, July 28, 2023December 12, 2023, Mary Oliver, Competition, Doorways, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Grew Up, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Challenge, Poet, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ It is better for the heart to break, than not to break. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Mary Oliver, Break, Heart, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine Feraz Zeid, July 27, 2023December 12, 2023, Mary Oliver, Despair, Mines, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Nature, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe. Feraz Zeid, September 16, 2023December 26, 2023, Mary Oliver, Beautiful, Faces, Sea, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Listening, Soul, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions. - Jean Kwok Author
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
