What did Mary Oliver mean by: The sea isn’t a place but a fact, and a mystery. - Mary Oliver Poet · USA Copy
+ 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
+ … Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Comfort, Despair, Risk, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Boots, Perfect, 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
+ Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem. Feraz Zeid, September 27, 2023December 26, 2023, Mary Oliver, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Breathe, Purpose, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ Look, hasn’t my body already felt like the body of a flower? Feraz Zeid, August 11, 2023December 12, 2023, Mary Oliver, Body, Flower, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
+ Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Walks, 0 - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they “artialize” nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ - W. H. Auden Poet · England