Autumn Quotes - Page 10

• Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Summer, Rest In Peace

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.15, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Tree, Way, Breeze

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, “How The Leaves Came Down”

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• In heaven it is always autumn.

  John Donne

  Heaven

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.356, Oxford University Press, USA

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• On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

  Matsuo Basho

  Crow, Evening, Branches

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• I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

  Kyffin Williams

  Melancholy

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• There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sorrow, Separation

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• Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.

  Angela Carter

  Sad, Heart, Rose

  Angela Carter (1987). “Saints and Strangers”, Penguin Group USA

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• The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Faith, Wisdom, Spring

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4656, Library of Alexandria

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• Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Wind, Long, Shadow

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin

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• That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

  Thomas Hardy

  Summer, Past, Thinking

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.245, Thomas Hardy

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• You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That’s the feeling.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Sleep, Artist, Shining

  Letter to Eric Kennington, May 06, 1935.

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• How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Book, Mean

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 2

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.

  Arthur Symons

  Sunset, Air, Sea

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• Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Warrior, Blood, Scarves

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• In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Glowing, Gold, Woods

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• A single leaf falling autumn is everywhere.

  Frederick Franck

  Fall, Leafs

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• It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Fall, Air

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.464, Dell

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• And every year there is a brief, startling moment
  When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and
  Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless
  Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air:
  It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies;
  It is the changing light of fall falling on us.

  Edward Hirsch

  Fall, Home, Long Walks

  Edward Hirsch, “Fall”

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• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Eye, Order

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• It's autumn in New York. The colors are changing — yellow, the browns, the greens, the oranges. And that's just the tap water.

  David Letterman

  New York, Color, Yellow

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• Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Summer, Song, Fall

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.397, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Flower, Sunset, Artist

  WILFERD A. PETERSON (1968). “ART OF LIVING”

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• Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Fall, Sand

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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