The Peace of Wild Things

Nov 1, 2024 2:31 AM

Author:Wendell Berry

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

The poems of Wendell Berry invite us to stop, to think, to see the world around us, and to savour what is good. Here are consoling verses of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging; luminous hymns to the land, the cycles of nature and the seasons as they ebb and flow. Here is the peace of wild things.

Reviews

Wendell Berry is the most important writer and thinker that you have (probably) never heard of. He is an American sage

—— James Rebanks

Our modern-day Thoreau ... He is unlike anybody else writing today

—— Andrew Marr , New Statesman

The poet laureate of America's farmland

—— Observer

Wendell Berry's poems have a real twinkle in their eye in the face of a dark world

—— Colum McCann , Atlantic

He has returned American poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose

—— Baltimore Sun

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—— New York Post

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