A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

It takes three to make a child.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Nothing recedes like progress.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

Autumn's the mellow time.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.