🎭 Culture Sep 3, 2026 · Maria Popova

Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work

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Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work
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“True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.”

“One can’t write directly about the soul,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary. Few writers have come to write about it — and to it — more directly than the novelist, poet, and environmental activist Wendell Berry (August 5, 1934–August 31, 2026), who describes himself

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