Wendell Berry

Quotes by Wendell Berry

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Writer · American · 1934

American writer (born 1934)

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“How joyful to be together, aloneas when we first were joinedin our little house by the riverlong ago, except that now we knoweach other, as we did not then;and now instead of two stories fumblingto...”
— Wendell Berry
lives-intertwining love soulmates

“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
— Wendell Berry
Past Better Escape