“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”
Origine: The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
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Origine: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Citizenship Papers (2003), A Citizen's Response
“The poem is important, but
not more than the people
whose survival it serves…”
In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams.
Poems
“Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.”
"Think Little".
A Continuous Harmony (1972)
“Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.”
"Healing".
What Are People For? (1990)
“To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.”
"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973).
Poems
"A Poem of Difficult Hope".
What Are People For? (1990)
"Imagination in Place".
The Way of Ignorance (2005)
"The Landscaping of Hell : Strip-Mine Morality" (1965).
The Long-Legged House (1969)
The Brian Lehrer Show (17 October 2013) http://www.wnyc.org/story/wendell-berry/
“Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.”
Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)
Citizenship Papers (2003), The Failure of War
“An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.”
"Damage".
What Are People For? (1990)
“Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.”
"Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" in Farming: A Hand Book (1970).
Poems
"A Statement against the War in Vietnam".
The Long-Legged House (1969)
"The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union" in Entries (1997).
Poems
Citizenship Papers (2003), The Failure of War
"A Poem of Difficult Hope".
What Are People For? (1990)
Interview in New Perspectives Quarterly (1992), quoted in his Profile at The Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=540
“Poetry can be written only because it has been written.”
"The Responsibility of the Poet".
What Are People For? (1990)
