2012
…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.
Mary Oliver, “Starlings in Winter” in Owls and Other Fantasies (2003)
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2012
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Raphael Sabatini, Scaramouche (1921)
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