Autumn Quotes - Page 7

• Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Winter, Snow, Waiting

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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• THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Mother, Events, Significance

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.23, Anza Publishing

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• My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

  Rowan Williams

  Opportunity, Rome, Tradition

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• O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Fall, Heart, Frost

  James Whitcomb Riley (1895). “The Days Gone by and Other Poems”

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• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
  Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.
  Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing
  With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Growth, Gold

  "Thirty Poems" by William C. Bryant, Appleton, New York, (pp. 112-115), 1864.

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• The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Summer, Wise, Spring

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• It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Apples, Coal, November

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.137

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
  Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
  Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
  Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
  In process of the seasons have I seen,
  Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
  Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Eye

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

  Robert Burns

  Cheer, Fall, Yellow

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.101

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mean, Thinking

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• God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

  John Donne

  God, Maturity, Moon

  John Donne (1963). “John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations”, p.182, Univ of California Press

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• Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

  Wumen Huikai

  Inspirational, Summer, Time

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• Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,
  The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
  Drops in a silent autumn night.
  All its allotted length of days
  The flower ripens in its place,
  Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
  Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Flower, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.37, Routledge

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• 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

  Fall, Eight, Years

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• Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

  Dodie Smith

  Summer, Mist, Cute Summer

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.390, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

  John Updike

  Fall, Grieving, Years

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Exercise, Views

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

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• And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

  Jill Dando

  Incentives, England, Married

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• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  Langston Hughes

  Beauty, Nature, Fall

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• The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

  Mary C. Ames

  Summer, Fall, July

  "Presence", line 62 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 764-765), 1922.

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• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

  Will Carleton

  Sweet, Fall, Yellow

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.99, Applewood Books

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• He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Fall, Light

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1956). “The American Essays”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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• Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

  Archie Manning

  Time, Fall, Boys

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• T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather.
  H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday.
  A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart.
  N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember.
  K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon.
  S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about.
  That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.

  Aileen Fisher

  Art, Nice, Home

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• Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!

  Emily Dickinson

  Mind, Bears, Sunny

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.160, Modern Library

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