Thought for the Day

A proper community [. . .] answers the needs,

practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members

— among them the need to need one another. [. . .]

~ Wendell Berry

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Quoted from Wendell Berry and Norman Wirzba (Ed.), "Racism and the Economy" in The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays (Counterpoint, 2003), page 63

Wendell Berry, Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Fiction Writer, Cultural Critic, Farmer, Environmental Activist

Wendell Berry Profiles at Academy of American Poets and Poetry Foundation

Amanda Petrusich, "Going Home With Wendell Berry" in The New Yorker, July 14, 2019

 

Thought for the Day

It is important that we expire.

It is a kind of work we have begun in order to complete.

~ Tony Hoagland

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Quoted from "Peaceful Transition" in Turn Up the Ocean (Graywolf Press, 2022), page 79

Tony Hoagland (1953-2018), Award-Winning American Poet

Tony Hoagland Profiles at Academy of American Poets and Poetry Foundation

Tony Hoagland Obituary (The New York Times)

Thought for the Day

It's such a small

word on which

your lives depend.

~ Nickole Brown

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Quoted from Nickole Brown, "Mercy" in To Those Who Were Our First Gods (The poem is printed and read aloud by Brown at Norwegian Writers' Climate Campaign; to access, see the poem title's link above. The chapbook is available from Rattle. It won Rattle's 2018 Chapbook Contest.)

 

Nickole Brown, American Poet

Thought for the Day

What cannot be contained

cannot be contained.

~ Ada Limon

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Quoted from Ada Limon, "What It Must Have Felt Like"

Ada Limon, United States Poet Laureate 

Ada Limon Profile at Academy of American Poets