“Are the dead as lonesome as the living?”
“Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.”
“Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights. ”
“I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.”
“Lonesome, no more!”
“I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die;”