The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in f…

Wendell Berry
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. ✨ Wendell Berry (2009). The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, p.136, Counterpoint Press
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