Wendell Berry Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

  Wendell Berry

  Real, Inspiration, Journey

  "Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms". 1982.

• Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to the singular sparrows of the street, the lilies of the field, "to the least of these my brethren." Love is not, by its own desire, heroic. It is heroic only when compelled to be. It exists by its willingness to be anonymous, humble, and unrewarded.

  Wendell Berry

  Love, Humble, Desire

• As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.179, Counterpoint Press

• To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

  Wendell Berry

  Common Sense, Mind, Desire

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

• There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

  Wendell Berry

  Mind, Vision, Desire

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Technology, Small Acts

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

• All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

  Wendell Berry

  Pride, Men, Rivers

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry”, p.29, Counterpoint Press

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