“I think we’re creative all day long. And we have to have an appointment to have that work out on the page.”
-Mary Oliver
Tag: Mary Oliver
Work
“One must work with the creative powers-for not to work is to work against; in art as in spiritual life there is no neutral place. Especially at the beginning, there is a need of discipline as well as solitude and concentration.”
-Mary Oliver
note: from Of Power and Time, a chapter in Upstream, Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
Extraordinary
“The extraordinary is what art is about.”
-Mary Oliver
note: the quotation is from Of Power and Time , a chapter in Upstream, Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
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