Sunday, March 05, 2006

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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.

 

 

Wendell Berry,  Sabbaths 2001, VI

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