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Wild Geese

Mary Oliver

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1986
Pages
Pages 1

You do not have to be good. The poem opens by taking something off you, and the relief of that is why people who have never willingly read a poem know this one by heart.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.
Wild Geese, Mary Oliver

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