For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.