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Quotes from Winter Hours — Mary Oliver

1935–2019 United States

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Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

Winter Hours (1999)

What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.

Winter Hours (1999)

You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

Winter Hours (1999)

I am a performing artist; I perform admiration.
Come with me, I want my poems to say. And do the same.

Winter Hours (1999)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Oliver (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.