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Wendell Berry
“
We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves.
It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.
”
― The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
― The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
“
At start of spring I open a trench
In the ground. I put into it
The winter’s accumulation of paper,
Pages I do not want to read
Again, useless words, fragments,
errors. And I put into it
the contents of the outhouse:
light of the suns, growth of the ground,
Finished with one of their journeys.
To the sky, to the wind, then,
and to the faithful trees, I confess
my sins: that I have not been happy
enough, considering my good luck;
have listened to too much noise,
have been inattentive to wonders
...more
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― New Collected Poems
― New Collected Poems
