...And yet a knowledgeis here that tenses.... : Quote by Wendell Berry

“ ...And yet a knowledgeis here that tenses the throatas for song: the inheritanceof the ones, alive or oncealive, who stand behindthe ones I have imagined,who took into their mindsthe troubles of this place,blights of love and race,but saw a good fate hereand willingly paid its cost,kept it the best they could,thought of its good,and mourned the good they lost.(From the ending of Where in Clearing, p179) ”

Wendell Berry
  • From : The Collected Poems
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