Old October

"All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."--Thomas Wolfe 

Shine on...

...shine on, harvest moon up in the sky...

Again

Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
--Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Eternal

“The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.”

 

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Absence

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.  
--François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Summer night

"Summer night -
even the stars
are whispering to each other."
  --Kobayashi Issa

Choices

“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.”

--Richard Bach