You do not have to be good – Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney

You do not need to be good – Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney

You do not have to be good – Mary Oliver cc-by lemasney

These are two takes on illustrating a part of the lovely poem by Mary Oliver below. Incidentally, I also decided to use Prezi to see if I could animate the quote:

WILD GEESE by Mary Oliver

“Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine…”   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.” – “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver – http://goo.gl/yIb0bO

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