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
Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.
Interpretation
Breaking the rules can sometimes mean redefining them for the better.
This quote by Mary Oliver suggests that there are times when adhering strictly to established rules can limit creativity and growth. In some situations, deviating from the norm or 'breaking the rules' may actually lead to a broader understanding and an expansion of those rules, ultimately resulting in progress and innovation.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a speech on creativity in the workplace.
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.
At 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.
I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.
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.
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.
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.
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.
...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.
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