Autumnal Equinox Quotes

• Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

  Samuel Butler

  Time, Spring, Fall

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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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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Summer, Spring

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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• Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

  Emily Bronte

  Fall, Autumn, Tree

  Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

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• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Sympathy, Fall, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspiring, Nature, Flower

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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• Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

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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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• 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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• There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Fall, Autumn, Sky

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  It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  P. D. James

  Life, Memories, Fall

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.339, Faber & Faber

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

  John Keats

  Fall, Autumn, Gourds

  "To Autumn" l. 1 (1820)

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• The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

  Henry Beston

  Summer, Country, Fall

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• The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

  Denis Waitley

  Fall, Autumn, Fullness Of Life

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• Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

  William Allingham

  Fall, Autumn, Fire

  William Allingham (1860). “Day and Night Songs; and The Music-master: A Love Poem”, p.78

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• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, Autumn, Moon

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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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• The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Loneliness, Fall

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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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• 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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• Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fall, Autumn, Positivity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.70, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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