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A review by pileatedwoodpecker
The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems by Wendell Berry
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
From the titular poem:
" 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. "
Other favorites: "The Thought of Something Else", "In Memory: Stuart Egnal", "To A Siberian Woodsman", "A Standing Ground", "The Heron", "The Wild Geese"
" 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. "
Other favorites: "The Thought of Something Else", "In Memory: Stuart Egnal", "To A Siberian Woodsman", "A Standing Ground", "The Heron", "The Wild Geese"