Saturday, 1 June 2019

Wise Words: To Know the Dark

For the first day of winter here in the southern hemisphere, this little poem seems apt. 

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

(Wendell Berry, New Collected Poems, Counterpoint: Berkley, 2012, p. 121)

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