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The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.
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After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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