jazz musician
American jazz violinist and composer (born 1956)
Mary Oliver is an American performer on violin, viola, and Hardanger fiddle, in the areas of New Music, free improvisation, and avant-garde jazz.
Not who you're looking for? Others named Mary Oliver: American poet (1935–2019)
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
“What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.”
“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.”
“My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness.”
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
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