Thursday, November 30, 2017

The Real Work


It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.

--Wendell Berry (1934- ), from the essay "Poetry and Marriage" in Standing By Words (1983)

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