Mary Oliver

Women should serve men. Men should serve women. Any house of peace is full of servants.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

I’m fading away, you know I used to be on fire.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Spread love everywhere you go let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

I can’t help this awful energy. God damn right, you should be scared of me.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me’.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!