Mary Oliver Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. September 10, 1935
Birthday: September 10
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
source: Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.65, Beacon Press
topic: Prayer, Blessed, Fall, Should I, Precious Life, Summer Days, How Precious Life Is
