Mary Oliver Quote

No poem is about one of us, or some of us, but is about all of us. It is part of a long document about the species. Every poem is about my life but also it is about your life, and a hundred thousand lives to come. That one person wrote it is not nearly so important or so interesting as that it pertains to us all.


Blue Pastures (1995)


No poem is about one of us, or some of us, but is about all of us. It is part of a long document about the species. Every poem is about my life but...

No poem is about one of us, or some of us, but is about all of us. It is part of a long document about the species. Every poem is about my life but...

No poem is about one of us, or some of us, but is about all of us. It is part of a long document about the species. Every poem is about my life but...

No poem is about one of us, or some of us, but is about all of us. It is part of a long document about the species. Every poem is about my life but...