Autumn Quotes - Page 5

• Autumn's the mellow time.

  William Allingham

  Inspiring, Time, Mellow

  William Allingham (1883). “Evil May-day, &c”

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• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

  John Keats

  Friendship, Summer, Running

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

  Zhuangzi

  Fall, Winter, Views

  Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA

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• By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Inspiring, Summer, Cheer

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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• She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

  Willa Cather

  Apples, Hands, Tree

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.566, eBookIt.com

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• Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

  Truman Capote

  Spring, Fall, April

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.54, Vintage

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• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  Thomas Hood

  Flower, Fall, Butterfly

  'No!'

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• Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

  David Letterman

  Change, Fun, Fall

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• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  Vernon Duke

  New York, Doe, Inviting

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• You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

  Karel Capek

  Spring, Fall, Months

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Beautiful, Rain

  Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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• There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

  Francis Bacon

  Spring, Fall, Garden

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The morns are meeker than they were,
  The nuts are getting brown;
  The berry's cheek is plumper,
  The rose is out of town.
  The maple wears a gayer scarf,
  The field a scarlet gown.
  Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Nuts, Rose

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• Autumn arrives in the early morning.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Fall, Spring Season

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

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• Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

  Hal Borland

  Fall, Men, Offers

  Hal Borland (1969). “Homeland: A Report from the Country”

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• The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

  Helen Hunt

  Land, Purple, Golden

  H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”

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• When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

  John Dryden

  Joy, Pears

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• The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

  Johnny Mercer

  Summer, Song, Fall

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• Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Mean, Eye

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 21, song (added 1850)

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• It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

  Marcel Proust

  Sweet, War, Lying

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.

  John Fowles

  Smell, Lakes, Hands

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• Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

  Dorothy Parker

  Summer, Spring, Hate

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

  Eric Sloane

  Fall, Lakes, Air

  Eric Sloane (2013). “Weather Almanac”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

  James Martineau

  Summer, Fall, Heart

  James Martineau (1858). “Endeavors after the Christian life: discourses”, p.227

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