“We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.”
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Source: Under Milk Wood
“Here they are. The soft eyes open.
If they have lived in a wood
It is a wood.
If they have lived on plains
It is grass rolling
Under their feet forever.”
The Heaven of Animals (l. 1–6).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)
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