Showing posts with label Wendell Berry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wendell Berry. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 November 2024

Quotes: Wendell Berry

"To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings."

–– Wendell Berry (b. 1934), American author, farmer, and activist 

via: Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 128.

Monday, 21 November 2016

Quotes: Wendell Berry

Make a story
Show how love and joy
Beauty and goodness
Shine out amongst the rubble
–– Wendell Berry (b. 1934), American author, farmer, and activist

* Source: Sabbath 2006 X

Monday, 7 May 2012

Quotes: Wendell Berry

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." – Wendell Berry
Have you ever had a difficult day that got better thanks to an unexpected gift? This quote presented itself to me on one of those days. The right quote on the wrong day made all the difference.