“All my dogs talked, and so they talk in the book. I’ve always had a dog, usually two — once four, which was one too many. Three could find me on the couch, one in my lap and one to either side.”
More from Mary Oliver
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.”
“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of…”
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls…”
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles…”