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Quote by Wendell Berry

“Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.”

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This volume presents a series of poems that delve into the complexities and nuances of marriage, offering readers a contemplative look at the institution through various lenses. more

Author

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

“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.”

Source: Justice

“If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.”

Ifs Men Causes Justice Judging Faculty Prime Discernment Blindfolds

Book:Justice

Source: Justice

“When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.”

Men States Feelings Eye Suffering Evil Justice Trouble Conditions Creation Conscience Sight Affair Wicked Remedy Transitory Resigned

Book:Justice

Source: Justice

“Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Moments Age Voice Memories Forget Existence Eternity Dust Anticipation Recalls Evident Forget It Chorus Single Mom Frailty

Author:Charles Wagner

“Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.”

Lines Periods Mountain Bible Leafs Lofty Brooks

Book:Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...

Source: Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...

“I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.”

I Can Dream Bigs Moon Surprise Honestly Big Surprises

Author:Neil Armstrong

“The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.”