Mary Oliver: Citations en anglais
“You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace.”
"Sand Dabs, Five"
Winter Hours (1999)
Contexte: You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
"Sand Dabs, Five"
Winter Hours (1999)
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds.”
"Staying Alive"
Blue Pastures (1995)
Contexte: I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion — that standing within this otherness — the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books — can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.
“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us…”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
"Robert Schumann"
Dream Work (1986)
Source: Blue Pastures
“Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
"Messenger"
Variante: My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness
Source: Thirst (2006)
