Autumn Quotes - Page 15

• Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

  Bai Juyi

  Dark, Winter, Two

  Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”

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• A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots To burst into bloom: A simplehearted person Faces the simplehearted flowers.

  Sun Bu'er

  Flower, Winter, Shine On

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• Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

  Saul Williams

  Two, Enough, Changed

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

  D. H. Lawrence

  Scent, November, Beast

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4223, Delphi Classics

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• Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.

  Khalil Gibran

  Summer, Fear, Spring

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• When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction. Naturally, every action which is destructive is against human nature. Constructiveness is the human way. Therefore, I think that in terms of basic human feeling, violence is not good. Non-violence is the only way.

  Dalai Lama

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Fall

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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• Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

  Mao Zedong

  Rain, Ocean, Moving

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• The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Spring, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Summer, Paradise, Being The Best

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• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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• Now the autumn shudders
  In the rose's root.
  Far and wide the ladders
  Lean among the fruit.
  Now the autumn clambers
  Up the trellised frame,
  And the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.
  Brighter than the blossom
  On the rose's bough
  Sits the wizened orange,
  Bitter berry now;
  Beauty never slumbers;
  All is in her name;
  But the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dust, Names, Roots

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America

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• When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.

  Djuna Barnes

  Summer, Book, School

  Djuna Barnes, Alyce Barry (1989). “New York”, Sun & Moon Pr

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• Something told the wild geese
  It was time to go.
  Though the fields lay golden
  Something whispered, "snow."
  Leaves were green and stirring,
  Berries, luster-glossed,
  But beneath warm feathers
  Something cautioned, "frost."
  All the sagging orchards
  Steamed with amber spice
  But each wild breast stiffened
  At remembered ice.
  Something told the wild geese
  It was time to fly-
  Summer sun was on their wings,
  Winter in their cry.

  Rachel Field

  Summer, Winter, Ice

  Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”

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• October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.

  Ken Weber

  Wind, Nuts, Smell

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• Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

  Jean Anouilh

  Beauty, God, Doubt

  "Becket". Play by Jean Anouilh, Act 1, 1959.

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• Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another.

  Susan Hill

  Time, Spring, Years

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• A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Flower, Heart, Bird

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• There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood-
  Touch of manner, hint of mood;
  And my heart is like a rhyme,
  With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

  Bliss Carman

  Heart, Blood, Purple

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Spring, Men

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• Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.

  Allen Lacy

  Time, Memories, Spring

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• This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clouds, Sky

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• The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Agreement, Practice

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• The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.

  Elinor Wylie

  Summer, Sweet, Fall

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press

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