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... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

Mary Oliver
Risk, Despair, Comfort
Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

Mary Oliver
Home, Islands, Risk
Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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