All MARY OLIVER Quotes about “Feelings”

“I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will thinkâ€” no, you will realizeâ€” that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.”
“Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.”
“A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.”
“I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.”
“I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.”
“Attention without feeling--is only a report.”

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