Mary Oliver Quotes

I Had A Dog
who Loved Flowers.
Briskly She Went
through The Fields,

yet Paused
for The Honeysuckle
or The Rose,
her Dark Head

and Her Wet Nose
touching
the Face
of Every One

with Its Petals
of Silk
with Its Fragrance
rising

into The Air
where The Bees,
their Bodies
heavy With Pollen

hovered -
and Easily
she Adored
every Blossom

not In The Serious
careful Way
that We Choose
this Blossom Or That Blossom

the Way We Praise Or Don't Praise -
the Way We Love
or Don't Love -
but The Way

we Long To Be -
that Happy
in The Heaven Of Earth -
that Wild, That Loving.

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