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sqwook ([personal profile] sqwook) wrote2008-07-31 04:22 pm
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And with the quotes again...

What can I say. We all need inspiration.  

The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me 
and I wake in the night at the least sound 
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake 
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
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.

-Wendell Berry, from Collected Poems: 1957-1982.

I particularly love "day-blind stars / waiting with their light."  Okay, yes.