Quote #59
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
More from Wendell Berry
- Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crud…
- So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor…
- Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.
- Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
- Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the r…
- As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the wa…
- A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.
- To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.'