The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“One thing work gives is the joy of not working, a minute here or there when I stand and only breathe, receiving… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“the inlet our friend looks as he did when we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Dance,' they told me, and I stood still, and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I’ve come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“How to be a Poet (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“At start of spring I open a trench In the ground. I put into it The winter’s accumulation of paper, Pages I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
