Autumn Quotes - Page 3

• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

  Robert Browning

  Trust, Time, Spring

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Sweet, Nature, October And Fall

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• There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Fall, August

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Jewels, Tree

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.5

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• Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Time, Fall, Seasons Change

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fall, Winter, Waiting

  Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

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• The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

  Henry Beston

  Summer, Country, Fall

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• Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It does make all men think at times; even the lightest and the worst. The distant days of our springtime, our faded summer, comes over us like a dream. We sit in the evening of our life in tender musings, and all that has been takes shadowy form again, and passes through the thoughts.

  Cunningham Geikie

  Summer, Dream, Twilight

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Fall, Winter

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

  Robert Frost

  Morning, Land, October

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.23, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The leaves fall patiently
  Nothing remembers or grieves
  The river takes to the sea
  The yellow drift of leaves.

  Sara Teasdale

  Fall, Grieving, Yellow

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

  Umberto Eco

  Fall, Flower, Fields

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The stillness of October gold
  Went out like beauty from a face.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Gold, October, Faces

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2014). “Robinson: Poems”, p.156, Everyman's Library

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• I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

  Lin Yutang

  Summer, Spring, Color

  "My Country and My People" by Lin Yutang, (p. 328), 1935.

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• 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

  Love, Wall, Home

  Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Leafs, Stem

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• I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fall, Sunshine, Air

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.374, e-artnow

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• The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

  Thomas Hood

  Flying, Gold, Dying

  Thomas Hood (1858). “Poems ... Tenth edition”, p.375

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• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  Samuel Johnson

  Appreciation, Spring, Flower

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Fall, Years

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• Life is a dream and autumn is a dream within dream!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dream, Life Is

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• There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

  Joe L. Wheeler

  Nostalgic, Significant, Cascade

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• I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

  Alys Fowler

  Summer, Goodbye, Morning

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• I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Fog, Silence

  'Ode: Autumn'

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