How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves


Entries: poems (ed. Pantheon, 1994)

Wendell Berry Quotes

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we...

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we...

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we...

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we...