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The language that reveals also obscures.

The language that reveals also obscures.

Wendell Berry
Language
Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.130, Counterpoint Press

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Wendell Berry
Needs, Language, Knows
Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

Wendell Berry
World, Impossible, Language
Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

Wendell Berry
Way, Language, Construction
Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

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