Best quotes by Mary Oliver on Work

Checkout quotes by Mary Oliver on Work

  • To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
    - Mary Oliver
  • I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
    - Mary Oliver
  • Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
    - Mary Oliver
  • There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
    - Mary Oliver
  • My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
    - Mary Oliver
  • If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
    - Mary Oliver
  • People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
    - Mary Oliver