Wild Geese

Wild Geese
Mary Oliver
 
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.” 
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 your 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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  1. 郊外は収穫(とりいれ)の為に忙(せは)しい時節であつた。新町の町はづれから、枯々な桑畠の間を通つて、思はず斯(こ)の郊外の一角へ出たのである。積上げた『藁(わら)によ』の片蔭に倚凭(よりかゝ)つて、霜枯れた雑草の上に足を投出し乍ら、肺の底までも深く野の空気を吸入れた時は、僅に蘇生(いきかへ)つたやうな心地(こゝろもち)になつた。最終日は、元ミクシィ代表取締役社長の朝倉祐介氏、ファウンダーの南場智子氏、現CEOの守安功氏を交えた疑似経営会議形式で、各チームの戦略を検討します。斯うして千曲川の下流に添ふ一面の平野は、宛然(あだかも)、戦場の光景(ありさま)であつた。

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