Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline. - Jessye Norman
My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.
- Jessye Norman
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. - Jessye Norman
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop qu… - Jessye Norman
The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop qu…
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. - Jessye Norman
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to thi… - Jessye Norman
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to thi…
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents. - Jessye Norman
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing. - Jessye Norman
I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more. - Jessye Norman
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experienc… - Jessye Norman
There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experienc…
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