“what wonder have you done to me?
in binding love you set me free.”
wendell berry
(via dudleyworl)
“he remembers the smile of assent that she gave him once: “… i love you.” everything that has happened to him since has come from that— and leads to that, for it is not a moment that has ever stopped happening; he has gone toward it and aspired to it all his life, a time that he has not surpassed.” - the boundary, wendell berry
(via melanie-is-healthy)
“healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. conviviality is healing. to be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of creation.” - the art of the commonplace, wendell berry
(via vaere)
“our bond is no little economy based on the exchange
of my love and work for yours, so much for so much
of an expendable fund. we don’t know what its limits are—
that puts it in the dark. we are more together
than we know, how else could we keep on discovering
we are more together than we thought?
you are the known way leading always to the unknown,
and you are the known place to which the unknown is always
leading me back. more blessed in you than i know,
i possess nothing worthy to give you, nothing
not belittled by my saying that i possess it.
even an hour of love is a moral predicament, a blessing
a man may be hard up to be worthy of. he can only
accept it, as a plant accepts from all the bounty of the light
enough to live, and then accepts the dark,
passing unencumbered back to the earth, as i
have fallen time and again from the great strength
of my desire, helpless, into your arms.”
the country of marriage, wendell berry
