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How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill–more of each than you have–inspiration work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity… Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.Wendell Berry
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.Wendell Berry
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A tree forms itself in answerto its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the onlything explainable will beyour explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IVWendell Berry
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I’ve come down from the skylike some damned ghost, delayedtoo long… To the abandoned fieldsthe trees returned and grew. They stand and grow. Time comes To them, time goes, the trees Stand; the only place They go is where they are. Those wholly patient ones… They do no wrong, and they Are beautiful. What more Could we have thought to ask?.. I stand and wait for lightto open the dark night. I stand and wait for prayerto come and find me here.” Sabbaths 2000 IX.Wendell Berry
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The inletour friend looks as he didwhen we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die of grief, for I knowthat this boy grew into a manwho was a faithful friendwho died.Wendell Berry
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May the stars guide you on your journey, and your heart always lead you home.Melaina Rayne
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Sometimes life takes you on a journey that changes everything you thought you wanted.Melaina Rayne