“to know a country takes all we know of love: some days better than others, but never easy to keep our promise every morning of every year, of every century, and wake up, stumble downstairs with all our raging hope, sit down at the kitchen table again, still blurry-eyed, still tired, and say: Listen, we need to talk.” LoveCountryAmericaPoetryPoemImprovingWhat I Know Of Country Book:How to Love a Country Source: How to Love a Country