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How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love

"Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits," Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch before Kurt Vonnegut, in a short and lovely poem, distilled happiness to the knowledge that you have enough.

How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love

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"Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits," Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch before Kurt Vonnegut, in a short and lovely poem,...

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"Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits," Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch before Kurt Vonnegut, in a short and lovely poem, distilled happiness to the knowledge that you have enough.

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"Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits," Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch before Kurt Vonnegut, in a short and lovely poem, distilled happiness to the knowledge that you have enough.

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