Love someone who does not deserve it.
~ Wendell Berry
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Quoted from Wendell Berry's poem "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" from A Country of Marriage (Harcourt Brace, 1973; reprint, Counterpoint, 2013). The poem also is included in The Mad Farmer Poems (Counterpoint, 2014).
Read Omid Safi's reflection on Berry's poem at On Being. (The text of the complete poem is there.)
The Berry Center, New Castle, Kentucky
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