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January 10, 2014

"Free from Fashionable Lies"

A Poet Reflects, Let me be plain with you, dear reader. I am an...

Let me be plain with you, dear reader.
I am an old-fashioned man. I like
the world of nature despite its mortal
dangers. I like the domestic world
of humans, so long as it pays its debts
to the natural world, and keeps its bounds.
I like the promise of Heaven. My purpose
is a language that can pay just thanks
and honor of those gifts, a tongue
set free from fashionable lies.
-- €”Wendell Berry, opening strophe to "€œSome Further Words"

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 10, 2014 4:43 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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