You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
Mary OliverI worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
Mary Oliver... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
Mary OliverI went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.
Mary Oliver