Autumn Quotes - Page 22

• There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Flower, Garden

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• Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Age, Aging, Not Sure

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• The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

  Martha Ostenso

  Hands, Wind, Gold

  Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• In a world of universal poverty
  The philosophers alone will be fat
  Against the autumn winds
  In an autumn that will be perpetual.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophical, Wind, World

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.152, Vintage

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• The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Sunshine, Meals

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.329

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• It's never too late to have a fling
  For autumn is just as nice as spring
  And it's never too late to fall in love.

  Sandy Wilson

  Falling In Love, Spring, Nice

  It's Never too Late to Fall in Love (1953 song)

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• Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

  Al Purdy

  Time, Fall, Earth

  1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).

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• In spring when maple buds are red,
  We turn the clock an hour ahead;
  Which means, each April that arrives,
  We lose an hour out of our lives.
  
  Who cares? When autumn birds in flocks
  Fly southward, back we turn the clocks,
  And so regain a lovely thing
  That missing hour we lost in spring.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Spring, Mean, Bird

  Phyllis McGinley, “Daylight Savings Time”

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• An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Night, Golden

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• I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Light, Simplicity, Atmosphere

  Henry David Thoreau (1892). “Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

  Leslie Newman

  Food, Wind, Long

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• Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Meditation, Decay

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
  O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
  The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
  Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
  And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

  George Arnold

  Lying, Branches, Shade

  George Arnold, “October”

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• October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

  Rainbow Rowell

  Nurse, Grace, Splits

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• Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

  Gautama Buddha

  Cutting, Self, Hands

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Autumn
  Into earth's lap does throw
  Brown apples gay in a game of play,
  As the equinoctials blow.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Gay, Blow, Games

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “October”

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• It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Russia, Government

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• After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Jewels, Color, Yellow

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• All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

  Charles Kingsley

  Book, Bridges, Rivers

  Charles Kingsley (1871). “Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Bourrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth”, p.1

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• With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Strong, Winter, Air

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 2, c. 15 BC.

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• Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Spring, Dry, May

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter III, Section 2,

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• It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.

  Bill Bryson

  Green Fields, Sight, Blue

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 27, 2015

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• The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is delicious in autumn, is most tormenting in the spring.

  Frances Trollope

  Spring, Moving, Mean

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.124

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• 0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

  Philip Massinger

  Summer, Adversity, Prosperity

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• Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

  Alice Meynell

  Spring, Clouds, Shadow

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com

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