“I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.”
Related authors
Other Mary Oliver Quotes
In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
Mary Oliver 
58% of people like this quote
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
Mary Oliver
56% of people like this quote
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Mary Oliver
56% of people like this quote