You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound. - Mary Oliver

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You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

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About Mary Oliver

Mary Jane Oliver (10 September 1935 – 17 January 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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Alternative Names: Mary Jane Oliver
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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.

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