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How to drink water when there is wine, Barbara Kingsolver
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How to stay at this desk when the sun is barefooting cartwheels over the grass — How to step carefully on the path that begs for the fleet unfettered gait of a deer — How to go home again when the wood thrush is promising the drunk liquid bliss of dusk — How to resist the kiss, the body forbidden that plucks the long vibrating string of want — How to drink water when there is wine — Once I knew all these brick-shaped things, and how they protract the striving and virtuous life. Now I have lived long and I know better.
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wild geese, mary oliver
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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. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. 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.
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SORRY I ATE THE PLUMS THAT WERE IN THE ICEBOX
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My Favorite Late August Poem, and Now Yours Too
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