Autumn Quotes - Page 6

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  Orlando Bloom

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Color, Funeral

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• 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

  Time, Fall, Men

  "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.

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• The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Snow, Waiting

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, p. 812

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• Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry.

  Gregg Boddy

  Fall, Air, Blue

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• All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.

  Ruth Pitter

  Love, Fall, Blue

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.

  William C. Bryant

  Blue, Heaven, Dew

  William Cullen Bryant, “To The Fringed Gentian”

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• Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Fall, Shadow

  Charles Baudelaire, “Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn)”

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• Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fall, Wind, Land

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This sunlight shames November where he grieves
  In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun
  The day, though bough with bough be overrun.
  But with a blessing every glade receives
  High salutation.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Blessing, Grieving, Red Leaves

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness”

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• Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

  Richard Widmark

  Apology, Past, Thinking

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• He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

  Robertson Davies

  Editors, Fudge, Dry

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• A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.

  John Vance Cheney

  Summer, Weed, Men

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• ...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with detachment, for whom nature's appeal is primarily pictorial, classicists as opposed to romanticists, perhaps. On such a day, one is usually excited, physically exhilarated, mentally stimulated. Only not much is left for the imagination.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Fall, Views, Sky

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• Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Morning, Fall

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• My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  School, Issues, Support

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• ... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Time, Spring

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.134

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• But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

  C. S. Lewis

  Tree, Afternoon, Remember

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• I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

  Mark Van Doren

  Love, Death, Fall

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• Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Spring, Flower

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• I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

  Sean Bean

  Couple, Tree, Gardening

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• There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

  William Browne

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

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• Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

  Georg Trakl

  Stars, Years, Shuddering

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• But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

  Gordon Parks

  Winter, Past, Entering

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• O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wind, Unseen, Fleeing

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 1

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