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Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

Born: 5 August 1934

Poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry was born on August 5, 1934, in New Castle, Kentucky. Berry is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, essays, and novels. His collections of poetry include New Collected Poems (Counterpoint, 2012); Given (Shoemaker Hoard, 2005); The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, 1988); A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979–1997 (Counterpoint, 1997); Entries: Poems (Pantheon, 1994); Traveling at Home (North Point Press, 1989); Collected Poems 1957–1982 (North Point Press, 1985); Clearing (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977); and The Broken Ground (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964). (Source)

Poems by Wendell Berry

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The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

"I come into the peace of wild things / who do not tax their lives with forethought / of grief." – Wendell Berry
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How to Be A Poet by Wendell Berry

"There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places." — Wendell Berry
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What We Need is Here by Wendell Berry

"And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear." — Wendell Berry