I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.