Quotation by D.H. Lawrence

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion.
The apples falling like great drops of dew
to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. "The Ship of Death," The Complete Poems, p. 716, Penguin Books (1984).

Written near death.
Surprise me with a
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