I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
as you are reading
you feel it
and as you read
you keep feeling it
and though it be my story
it will be common,
though it be singular
it will be known to you
so that by the end
you will think—
no, you will realize—
that it was all the while
yourself arranging the words,
that it was all the time
words that you yourself,
out of your heart
had been saying.


Mary Oliver

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in...
MARY OLIVER
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell ...
MARY OLIVER
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own ...
MARY OLIVER
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER
TIDES Every day the sea blue gray green lavender pulls away leaving the harbor’s dark-cobbled unde...
MARY OLIVER
Percy and Books
Percy does not like it when I read a book.
He puts his face over th...
MARY OLIVER
I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
OLIVER
I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to...
OLIVER
I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ...
OLIVER
I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact...
OLIVER
My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
OLIVER
I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
OLIVER
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER
I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
JAMIE OLIVER
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
OLIVER SACKS
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli...
JOHN OLIVER
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
JOHN OLIVER
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo...
OLIVER STONE
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w...
OLIVER STONE
In any film there's always a historical implication.
OLIVER STONE
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt...
OLIVER STONE
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment ...
OLIVER STONE
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced...
OLIVER STONE
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
OLIVER STONE
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one...
OLIVER STONE
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with ...
OLIVER STONE
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she...
OLIVER STONE
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder...
OLIVER STONE
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th...
OLIVER STONE
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin...
OLIVER STONE
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
OLIVER STONE
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&...
OLIVER STONE
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great....
OLIVER STONE
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
OLIVER STONE
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of...
OLIVER STONE
There's an electrical thing about movies.
OLIVER STONE
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ...
OLIVER STONE
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...
OLIVER STONE
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
OLIVER SACKS
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
OLIVER SACKS
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
OLIVER SACKS
I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
OLIVER SACKS
I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
OLIVER SACKS
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th...
OLIVER REED
If the money's right, I'll do a film.
OLIVER REED
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stre...
OLIVER REED
I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
OLIVER REED
I'm really a pacifist.
OLIVER REED
Awe and respect are two different things.
OLIVER REED
I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
OLIVER REED
What's the point of staying sober?
OLIVER REED
Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr...
OLIVER REED