From his collection of 1989 Sabbath poems, A Timbered Choir.

One day I walked imagining
What work I might do here,
The place, once dark, made clear
By work and thought, my managing,
The world thus made more dear.
I walked and dreamed, the sun in clouds,
Dreamer and day at odds.

The world in its great mystery
Was hidden by my dream.
Today I make no claim;
I dream of what is here, the tree
Beside the falling stream,
The stone, the light upon stone;
And day and dream are one.

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One response to “Wendell Berry on Making Claims”

1. Curt says:

   11/01/2012 at 12:11 pm

   Amen and amen. Burden lifted once more. Lift it again tomorrow sweet Jesus.

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