Mary Oliver Upstream Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't my most fashionable dress, but anyone who called for me at nine o-clock in the bloody morning would have to take what he was given. — Alyxandra Harvey

A horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums. — George Eliot

God reveals future events through dreams, vision and the sacred voice. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because one lie tends to become a lifestyle that destroys. — Richard Diaz

The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis. — Umberto Eco

We laugh & it pits the world against us. — Richard Siken