Wendell Berry Quote

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.

Given: Poems (ed. Counterpoint, 2006) - ISBN: 9781593761073

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still...

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still...

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still...

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still...