“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”

— Mary Oliver

Source: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

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American writer 1935–2019

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