Comments on: Wendell Berry’s A Timbered Choir

By: loren

loren — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:39:14 +0000

Sorry, Christina, I have very few poems memorized.

Perhaps some readers will be able to help you. Do you know the name of the poem?

By: Christina Colombo

Christina Colombo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:06:31 +0000

GREAT blog! You popped up on a google search.

I’m looking for some missing lines in a Wendell Berry poem and clues would be most gratefully appreciated.

To farm, live like a tree
That does not grow beyond
The power of its place . . .

. . . stands in its place
and rises by the strength
of local soil and light,
aspiring to no height
that it has not attained.

More time, more light, more rain
will make it grow again
till it has realized all
that it can become,
and then it dies into more life,
deserving more by not desiring more.

By: Loren

Loren — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:51:00 +0000

Gerald,

I’m sorry but I don’t know the answer to your question.

Brother Tom at brtom knows Berry better than anyone I know, but I couldn’t find his email address on his site.

You can do a search for brtom and find his site easily. Maybe you’d have better luck than I did finding his email address.

By: Gerald Gipson

Gerald Gipson — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:20:44 +0000

I am a band condcutor preparing my students for the piece “Held still in quick of grace” by Jack Stamp. It is said that the title is taken from line of Wendell Berry’s poetry. I can not locate the complete poem or any information on it. Can you be of any help? I would like to share it with my students. Thanks in advance, JGipson