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" Starlings in Winter

I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. 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 , Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

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Mary Oliver quote : Starlings in Winter<br /><br />I feel my boots<br />trying to leave the ground,<br />I feel my heart<br />pumping hard. I want<br /><br />to think again of dangerous and noble things.<br />I want to be light and frolicsome.<br />I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,<br />as though I had wings.
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