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“The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.”

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Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, an American novelist born on August 5, 1934, is renowned for his profound descriptions of rural life and his critical views on modern industrial civilization. more

“There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.”

Ifs Want Helping Growth Religious Principles Economy Economic Limits Assets Farms Limitless Thyself Neighbour

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“The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.”

People Hands Moving Wealth Technology Products Cost Lows Machines Aim Sells Productions Fewer Industrialization

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“People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.”

People Ifs Jobs Economy Creation Machines Aim Job Creation

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“Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.”

Ifs Want Happens Wonder Unexpected Schedules Hanging Around

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