Karen Leahy » form http://karenleahy.com Author, Freelance Editor, Speaker & Writing Coach Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:09:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 The Wisdom of Wendell Berry http://karenleahy.com/the-wisdom-of-wendell-berry/ http://karenleahy.com/the-wisdom-of-wendell-berry/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:12:02 +0000 Karen Leahy http://karenleahy.com/?p=156 A friend’s mention of Wendell Berry as his favorite poet the other day sent me looking for him online.  I came across this quote which cheers me up as I seek what form my new retirement will take. It lets me lean back and enjoy the formlessness of these first few days.

“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

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