All MARY OLIVER Quotes about “Morning”

“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
“Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?”
“It's morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it.”
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.”
“I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.”
“I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shallâ€” what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.”
“I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.”
“Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.”

More Mary Oliver quote about:

You may also like: