I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.
Mary OliverRead
If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote expresses deep affection through shared experiences in nature.
Mary Oliver's quote suggests that sharing an experience as intimate and profound as wandering through the woods signifies a deep bond of love between individuals. The woods symbolize a space for connection, tranquility, and discovery, thus highlighting the special nature of the relationship when one chooses to explore such a setting together.
Themes
LoveNatureWoodsAffectionConnection
In practice
Example use cases
During a wedding speech to emphasize the couple's shared love for nature.
More from Mary Oliver
All quotes βAt the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.
Mary OliverRead
I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.
Mary OliverRead
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
Mary OliverRead
If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
Mary OliverRead
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.
Mary OliverRead
Similar quotes
Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Leo BuscagliaRead
Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead
Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!
William ShakespeareRead
There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.
Thomas BrowneRead
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
William C. BryantRead
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord ByronRead