Autumn Quotes - Page 4

• Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Spring, Fall, Dresses

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• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Time, Spring

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Fall, Land, Asters

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• 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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• In autumn, when the leaves are brown,
  Take pen and ink, and write it down.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Poetry, Ink

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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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, Fire, Woods

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

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• A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Flower, Fall, Character

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• A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspiring, Rain, Fall

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  William Cowper

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Christian

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

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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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• For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

  Hal Borland

  Fall, Years, Three

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

  William Shakespeare

  Rich, Lord, Burden

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.312

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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, Garden

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

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Yellowstone

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Space, Frost

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• Autumn is my favorite season.

  Johnny Kelly

  My Favorite, Seasons

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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, Maturity

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• It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spring, Fall, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.664, Library of America

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• Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Wise, Nature

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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, Snow, Mind

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

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• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Song, Light, Air

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.2052, Delphi Classics

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• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, Moon, Night

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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, Tree, Growth

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