“Will you not come home, brother? you have been long away,
It's April, and blossom time, and white is the spray;
And bright is the sun, brother, and warm is the rain, -
Will you not come home, brother, home to us again?”

Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "The West Wind"

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English poet and writer 1878–1967

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out.”

Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) American musician, poet and author

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Lyrics, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, 1970

“You're the reason I get out of bed every night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's… you.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

“You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 2 (p. 55)

“You have come from my home,
So you must know about things at home.
On the day you left—in front of my open-work window,
Had the winter plum opened into blossom yet?”

Wang Wei (699–759) a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman

"Tsa shih"

“Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother telling his sister, "I’ll kill you"… You never, ever say something like that.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 01

“If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.”

Margaret Wise Brown The Runaway Bunny

Source: The Runaway Bunny

“Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.”

Madeleine L'Engle book Meet the Austins

Source: Meet the Austins

“Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)

“You and me on the bobbing knee.
Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read!
I will come home again, but not until
The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)

“Will you not come home, brother? you have been long away,
It's April, and blossom time, and white is the spray;
And bright is the sun, brother, and warm is the rain, -
Will you not come home, brother, home to us again?”

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It's April, and blossom time, and white is the spray;
And bright is the sun, brother, and warm is the rain, -
Will you not come home, brother, home to us again?”