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Category: poetry

Do not think me gentle

September 20, 2022 Karl ElvisLeave a comment

Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.

—Wendell Berry
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