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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Mind
Empty
Room
Rooms
Days
Clear
Come

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