Blue Iris Quotes

“And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

“Now that I’m free to be myself, who am I?”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

“When I woke the morning light was just slipping in front of the stars and I was covered with blossoms.”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

“how the cold makes us dream!”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

“even silence can feel, to the world, like happiness,
like praise,
from the pool of shade you have found beside the everlasting.”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

“Now that I'm free to be myself, who am I?”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays