Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.


A Poetry Handbook (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994) - ISBN: 9780156724005

Mary Oliver Quotes

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.