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• At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Autumn, Sea, Smell

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• Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Exercise, Autumn

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

  John Keats

  Friendship, Summer, Running

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.

  Sarah Dunn

  New York, Autumn, Blue

  Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,
  The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
  Drops in a silent autumn night.
  All its allotted length of days
  The flower ripens in its place,
  Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
  Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Flower, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.37, Routledge

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• Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

  Hal Borland

  Distance, Fall, Autumn

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• Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

  Truman Capote

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.54, Vintage

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• Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

  William Allingham

  Fall, Autumn, Fire

  William Allingham (1860). “Day and Night Songs; and The Music-master: A Love Poem”, p.78

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• Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  Sharon Kay Penman (2002). “Time and Chance”, p.291, Penguin

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• But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.200, Anchor

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• Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

  David Letterman

  Change, Fun, Fall

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  It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  P. D. James

  Life, Memories, Fall

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.339, Faber & Faber

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Summer, Spring

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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• Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Snow

  Emily Dickinson (2007). “Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie”, p.62, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Autumn, Lakes, Green Fields

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

  Robert Browning

  Inspiring, Nature, Autumn

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.132, Wildside Press LLC

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• A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

  Alan Lightman

  Life, Autumn, Doors

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• But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock-When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Morning, Autumn, Air

  James Whitcomb Riley (1994). “Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Autumn, Saint

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Best Love, Autumn, Lovers

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• A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

  Mary Carolyn Davies

  Dog, Autumn, Loss

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• He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Freedom, Autumn

  "Gooseberries". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

  Kathryn Hughes

  Real, Food, Autumn

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• Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun. If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. If you bike, pedal HARD

  Kyle Lake

  Running, Autumn, Past

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