Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Autumn

Autumn

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 (Of Time and the River)
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
Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.--Peggy Toney Horton
As dyed in blood the streaming vines appear,
While long and low the wind about them grieves:
The heart of Autumn must have broken here,
And poured its treasure upon the leaves.--Charlotte Fiske Bates ("Woodbines in October")
Autumn begins to decorate the ground
with its fragile bits of loosened gold.--Teresita Fernandez ("Every Day That I Love You")
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.--Faith Baldwin (American Family)
Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on,
Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West ("Autumn" The Garden)
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.--Albert Camus
Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.--Mary Webb (The Spring of Joy)
Autumn is the best season in which to sniff, and to sniff for pleasure, for this is the season of universal pungency.--Bertha Damon (A Sense of Humus)
Autumn ... makes a double demand. It asks that we prepare for the future--that we be wise in the ways of garnering and keeping. But it also asks that we learn to let go--to acknowledge the beauty of sparseness.--Bonaro W. Overstreet ("Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness" in Meditations for Women ed. by Abernethy)
Autumn to winter, winter to spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall--
So rolls the changing year, and so we change
Motion so swift, we know not that we move.--Dinah Mulock Craik
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.--Carol Bishop Hipps
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 (Circle of the Seasons)
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 (George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals)
For all I can really do is
stand here
in September’s rain
savoring...
soaking it all in
slipping..
and simply
holding on to poetry
for dear life.
--Sanober Khan (Turquoise Silence)
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.--Edwin Way Teale (Autumn Across America)
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
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.--L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
In the East, at least, November is a sear month, beautiful for its bleakness. ... It is a time of great life learning: We learn that we cannot control the passage of time in life. We learn to accept each of the stages of life with serenity. We learn to look to new moments in life with hope rather than despair.--Joan Chittister (A Monastery Almanac)
It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.--Henry James
I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.--Sue Grafton ("Long Gone")
Let Autumn be our teacher; Everything must sleep and die, To rise and live again.--John E. Vance
Maker of the Seasons, thank you for all that autumn teaches me. Change my focus so that I see not only what I am leaving behind, but also the harvest and plenitude that my life holds. May my heart grow freer and my life more peaceful as I resonate with, and respond to, the many teachings this season offers me.--Joyce Rupp
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, meadows brown and sere.--William Cullen Bryant ("The Death of the Flowers")
November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.--Clyde Watson
October is a symphony of permanence and change.--Borono W. Overstreet ("Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness")
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.--Hal Borland ("Autumn is for Understanding" Sundial of the Seasons)
October is the month for painted leaves.... As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.--Henry David Thoreau ("Autumnal Tints")
Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September.--Ali Smith (The Whole Story and Other Stories)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.--John Keats ("To Autumn")
September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.--Eleanor Perenyi (More Was Lost)
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the Summer,
Fires in the Fall.--Robert Louis Stevenson (Autumn Fires)
The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned,
With lighted torch goes careless on his way;
And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray,
And vines are running fire along the ground.--Edith M. Thomas ("Autumn" Lyrics and Sonnets)
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 ("Autumn on the Doorstep--September 13" Sundial of the Seasons)
The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.--Monica Baldwin (I Leap over the Wall)
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now
Its mellow richness on the clustered trees,
And, from a beaker full of richest dyes,
Pouring new glory on the autumn woods.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Autumn")
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.--Nathaniel Hawthorne (American Note-Books)
There's a promise that what September starts, October will carry on, catching the torch flung into her hand.--Faith Baldwin (Evening Star)
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.--Charles Hare
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?--Doris Lessing (Children of Violence: Martha Quest)
When I fear the loss of my youthfulness and refuse to accept the reality of aging, turn my face to the brilliant colors of autumn trees; open my spirit to the mellow resonance of autumn sunsets and the beauty of the changing land.--Joyce Rupp & Macrina Wiederkehr (The Circle of Life: The Heart’s Journey Through the Seasons)
Whilst August yet wears her golden crown,
Ripening fields lush - bright with promise;
Summer waxes long, then wanes, quietly passing
Her fading green glory on to riotous Autumn.
--Michelle L. Thieme ("August's Crown")