Wendell Berry image
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Born in August 5, 1934 / United States / English

Poems by Wendell Berry

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The peace of wild things

... rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds ...

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A Meeting

... grown strange to what I was ...

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Sabbaths 2001

... not the silence of machines when they are still, ...

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The Man Born to Farming

... That the unending sentence of his love flows out of his mouth ...

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The Real Work

... we have come our real work,and that when we no longer know which way to go ...

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What We Need Is Here

... Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds ...

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1991-i

... Our bombs fall day and night, ...

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1991-ii

... Soon now The garden must be worked, ...

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A Warning To My Readers

... That I may have spoken well ...

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Do not be ashamed

... Be ready. When their light has picked you out ...

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For The Future

... we make a place for birds to sing ...

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In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams

... here, the leaves, purple and brown,falling, the nuthatches walking ...

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In this World

... Below me cattle graze out across the wide fields of the bottomlands, ...

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Like The Water

... except we keep returning to its rich waters ...

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Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

... Be joyful though you have considered all the facts ...