Mary Oliver
Praise for Selected Poems
It is no exaggeration to say that she gave me the blueprint, the road map, for the rest of my life. Mary Oliver taught me how to live.
Steven Petrow, The New York Times
It doesn’t feel like you have to take a seminar in order to understand Mary Oliver’s poetry. She’s speaking directly to you as a human being.
Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker
[In] so much of her poetry, just a few seemingly simple phrases perfectly express what we need to know just then, in that moment. The symmetry we feel when we are connected, at one with nature and the world.
Oprah Winfrey
It is no exaggeration to say that she gave me the blueprint, the road map, for the rest of my life. Mary Oliver taught me how to live.
Steven Petrow, The New York Times
It doesn’t feel like you have to take a seminar in order to understand Mary Oliver’s poetry. She’s speaking directly to you as a human being.
Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker
[In] so much of her poetry, just a few seemingly simple phrases perfectly express what we need to know just then, in that moment. The symmetry we feel when we are connected, at one with nature and the world.
Oprah Winfrey
It is no exaggeration to say that she gave me the blueprint, the road map, for the rest of my life. Mary Oliver taught me how to live.
Steven Petrow, The New York Times
It doesn’t feel like you have to take a seminar in order to understand Mary Oliver’s poetry. She’s speaking directly to you as a human being.
Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker
[In] so much of her poetry, just a few seemingly simple phrases perfectly express what we need to know just then, in that moment. The symmetry we feel when we are connected, at one with nature and the world.
Oprah Winfrey