Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.
- Source
- The Death of the Hired Man, North of Boston, 1914
- Written
- 1914
About this quotation
Warren says this to his wife Mary about Silas, the old farmhand who has come back to die. Mary answers with the second half of the exchange: “I should have called it / Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”