Wild GeeseYou do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your kneesfor 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 rainare 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 placein the family of things. Mary Oliver
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There are many ways in which we can describe the life of a wild goose. A wild goose is noble, free, strong, and bold. It is also free to roam and not tied down to one place in particular. It can be found in any direction it happens to go, fully capable of taking care of its needs.

A wild goose stands for anything that is noble, free, strong, and bold. It also stands for anything that is free to roam and not tied down to one place in particular. A wild goose is an admirable bird that does not have any restrictions on its actions.

It can do what it wants whenever it wants to do so. When you put all these characteristics together then you will realize that a wild goose represents everything that is noble, free, strong, and bold. However, the most important characteristic that would remind people of a wild goose would be the fact that it stands for everything that is noble, free, strong, and bold.

This means that a wild goose represents freedom from restrictions caused by personal desires or desires of other people around you. It also represents freedom from restrictions caused by social norms or customs.

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