Autumn Season Quotes - Page 2

• O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

  William Blake

  Daughter, Song, Flower

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.409, Univ of California Press

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

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Autumn, Fog

  'Ode: Autumn'

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• A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

  Eric Sloane

  Fall, Autumn, Lakes

  Eric Sloane (2013). “Weather Almanac”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspiring, Nature, Flower

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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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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• By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Inspiring, Summer, Cheer

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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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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• The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Autumn

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches”, p.336, tredition

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• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

  Walter Scott

  Spring, Autumn, Tree

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• Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Spring, Flower

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• The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

  Johnny Mercer

  Summer, Song, Fall

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• Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Sadness

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• The morns are meeker than they were,
  The nuts are getting brown;
  The berry's cheek is plumper,
  The rose is out of town.
  The maple wears a gayer scarf,
  The field a scarlet gown.
  Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Nuts

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Believe, Autumn

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.66, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Autumn, Snow

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, p. 812

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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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• Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

  William Cowper

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Berries

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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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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• 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, Autumn, Winter

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

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• In the other gardens
  And all up the vale,
  From the autumn bonfies
  See the smoke trail!
  Pleasant summer over
  And all the summer flowers,
  The red fire blazes,
  the grey smoke towers.
  Sing a song of seasons!
  Something bright in all,
  Flowers in the summer
  Fires in the fall!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Song, Flower

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.2624, e-artnow

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• Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

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