All MARY OLIVER Quotes about “Heart”

“I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.”
“And I say to my heart: rave on.”
“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”
“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.”
“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”
“All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing”
“Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.”
“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.”
“Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.”
“But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?”
“I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.”

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