It mustn’t be fancy.” Also: “I always feel that whatever isn’t necessary should not be in the poem.” She wrote 15 books of poetry and essays, and in 2007 the New York Times described her as “far and away, this country’s best-selling poet.” In an interview with NPR, Oliver said: “Poetry, to be understood, must be clear. Oliver, who was 83, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1994. “I Did Think, Let’s Go About This Slowly,” from her elegy to her partner (via Maria Popova): “ The Uses of Sorrow” (from The Bar Method): I also thought, Man, everyone loved Mary Oliver, I bet my whole inbox is filled with quotes of hers, and it is. On hearing news this afternoon of the poet Mary Oliver’s death, I thought of the famous closing lines her poem “ The Summer Day” (“Tell me, what is it you plan to do // with your one wild and precious life?”), and I texted my mother, who had given her own mother a book of Oliver’s poems.
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