{"id":4549,"date":"2012-03-18T22:50:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T02:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2012-03-18T22:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T02:50:24","slug":"spare-use-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"spare use of words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuff like this makes me want to write and to abandon it all together. This was today’s poem from Writer’s Almanac<\/a>. I was going to quote it but I kept choosing two lines. No – these two lines. No this bit. No that bit. No that’s just not enough. I want to be able to remember the whole thing. I think I’ll try to learn this one by heart. Each line is a gem.<\/p>\n

Goods<\/p>\n

It’s the immemorial feelings
\nI like the best: hunger, thirst,
\ntheir satisfaction; work-weariness,
\nearned rest; the falling again
\nfrom loneliness to love;
\nthe green growth the mind takes
\nfrom the pastures in March;
\nthe gayety in the stride
\nof a good team of Belgian mares
\nthat seems to shudder from me
\nthrough all my ancestry.
\n— Wendell Berry<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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