This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful for him. He was very young. He knew very little of life. He saw beauty but he did not feel any true passion. How could he? He did not know. He had not really encountered the force of beauty's opposite."
"Are you more cynical now, then?" she asked him.
"Cynical," he frowned, "No, not that. I know that there is an ugly side of life-and not just human life. I know that everything is not simply beautiful. I am not a romantic as this boy was. But I am not a cynic either. There is something enduring in all of life, Anne, something tough. Something. Something terribly weak yet incredibly powerful...


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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER
My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
MARY QUANT
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr...
MARY HEMINGWAY
...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up childre...
MARY WESLEY
The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t...
MARY BARRA
World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!!
MARY KATE
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY
A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...
MARY ASTOR
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
MARY ASTOR
It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
MARY ASTOR
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
MARY ASTOR
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain...
MARY STUART
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at ...
MARY CATHERWOOD
It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ...
MARY GRANDPRE
to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER
The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER
Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER
Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...
MARY STEWART
The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f...
MARY PICKFORD
I have never been contained except I made the prison
MARY EVANS
The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
MARY LITTLE
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its me...
MARY WEBB
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
MARY STEWART
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
MARY WEBB
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
No pressure, no diamonds.
MARY CASE
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
MARY BYRANT
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar...
MARY HENLE
A child is fed with milk and praise.
MARY LAMB
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the fal...
MARY PICKFORD
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to l...
MARY DALY
Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.
MARY DALY
The divine egoism hat is genius.
MARY WEBB