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Mary Oliver

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”

Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
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Wild Geese Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
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