Mary Oliver
Poet
"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination."
Wild Geese quotes
Wild Geese
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
Mary Oliver
Poet
"Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine"
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way."
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"A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals."
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