Here are the quotes we discussed on Episode 01:01:
From Wendell Berry’s book Imagination in Place referenced during the “Set the Bar” podcast:
“You can’t deal with things merely according to category; you are continually required to consider the distinct individuality of an animal or a tree, or the uniqueness of a place or situation, and you do draw upon a long accumulation of experience, your own and other peoples…you are always under pressure to explain to somebody (often yourself) exactly what needs to be done. This is the right kind of language for a writer, a language developing, so to speak, from the ground up.” – WB, I.I.P, pg 58
“beyond desire, intellect or learning or will or technical artistry, the readiness is everything. It involves everything listed above, plus a life’s work. – WB, IIP, pg 117
(Kathleen Raine, poem – from Imagination in Place
It is myself
I leave behind
My mother’s child
Simple, unlearned
Whose soul’s country
Was these bright hills
This northern sky
“..it is grief that preserves and clarifies the memory of her joy, and gives it life and value.” – – WB, I.I.P, pg 132
“…think of Influence literally as a flow: steadily augmenting flow of consciousness and of conscience moving toward (something)…one enters into this flow by way of a “moment”, a momentum, of clarity instinct with the power to gather other such moments.”
– WB, I.I.P, pg 42