Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as... -Mary Oliver

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

Mary Oliver , Poet
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work....
Poetry is meant to be heard....
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth....
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that....
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms....
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it;...
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation....
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 believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us....
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work....

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...