Wendell Berry Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Pavement, Soil

  Wendell Berry (2006). “Given: Poems”, p.4, Counterpoint

• Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Dirt, Pavement

• Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Love You, Live Your Life

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

• I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Men, Wildflowers

  Wendell Berry (2013). “This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems”, p.196, Counterpoint

• I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

• As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.179, Counterpoint Press

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