You dont have to be good
You dont 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.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
You dont 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.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
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