Poetry Quote by Wendell Berry — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A tree forms itself in answer”

“Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.”

“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.”

“I come into the peace of wild things”

“Again I resume the long”

“The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell . . . The”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

“No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.”

“I thought leaving you would be easy,”

“Summer night--”

“If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.”