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To Know the Dark

by Wendell Berry

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

#poetry #wendell berry #to know the dark

"Questionnaire" - Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. 2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred. 3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy. 4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without. 5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.

#written in 2009 apparently anyway eternally relevant #wendell berry #questionnaire #poetry #skravler

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

-Wendell Berry

Ansel Adams

#nature #Photography #Poetry #solitude #Ansel Adams #Wendell Berry #msmarymillspaulos

fave poems no one asked for 𓂃˖ ࣪⊹

1. the waste land by ts elliot

2. swimming chenango lake by charles tomlinson

3. the patience of ordinary things by pat schnieder

4. mad girl’s love song by sylvia plath

5. wild geese by mary oliver

6. initiation song from finder’s lodge by ursula k leguin

7. the orange by wendy cope

8. tonight by agha shahid ali

9. accident report in the tall, tall weeds by ada limon

10. sleeping in the forest by mary oliver

11. the plum you’re going to eat next summer by gayle brandeis

12. the peace of wild things by wendell berry

13. farewell by agha shahid ali

14. underwater tea party by isabelle correa

15. i worried by mary oliver

16. the thing is by ellen bass

17. grief astronomer by andrea gibson

18. laura, i want you pulling your hair back by natalie dunn

19. when all this ends, i’ll throw a party by joy sullivan

20. tomatoes by joy sullivan

“People who live at the lower ends of watersheds cannot be isolationists — or not for long. Pretty soon they will notice that water flows, and that will set them to thinking about the people upstream who either do or do not send down their silt and pollutants and garbage. Thinking about the people upstream out to cause further thinking about the people downstream. Such pondering on the facts of gravity and the fluidity of water shows us that the golden rule speaks to a condition of absolute interdependency and obligation. People who live on rivers — or, in fact, anywhere in a watershed — might rephrase the rule in this way: Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”

- Wendell Berry, from his essay “Watershed and Commonwealth”, in Citizenship Papers (2003)

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though i am heavy, there is flight around me

wendell berry, the fall of icarus, f. scott fitzgerald, christophe vacher, hozier, galileo chini, mahmoud darwish (tr. catherine cobham), rubens, akwaeke emezi, alfred schwarzschild