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.

Mary Oliver

Tag: poetry beauty nature birds shore woods

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White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like white flakes. Rain squalls blow past like gray slanting sails, and blue gaps open in the sky. The air brightens.
A cold silvery evening. The moon is overhead, and down below, in the water; and all around it-a wide frame of old, hammered, scaly silver. Etched on the silver-silent black fishing boats, tiny black needles of masts, little black men casting invisible lines into the silver. And the only sounds are the occasional plashing of an oar, the creaking of an oarlock, the springlike leap and flip-flop of a fish. ("The North")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Tag: moon night storm boats shore beach

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I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

Dejan Stojanovic

Tag: wisdom poetry literature ocean quotes thoughts poems shore poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic

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So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.

T.S. Eliot

Tag: words poetry fantasy travel explore mystery shore timelessness streets visit little-gidding

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Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the Sea of Changes. It starts from within.

Grigoris Deoudis

Tag: self revolution evolution shore within psychological changing lucent sea-of-change

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Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

Félix J. Palma

Tag: time birth shore river

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Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.

نزار قباني

Tag: love fish sea feelings shore

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