The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

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.

Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West

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

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.