“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

Dream Work (1986)
Source: "Wild Geese"

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American writer 1935–2019

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