October And Fall Quotes

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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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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

  Alexander Smith

  Autumn, Years, Circles

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

  Hal Borland

  Distance, Fall, Autumn

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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, Autumn, Lakes

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

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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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• Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Sadness

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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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• Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

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• Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

  William Cowper

  Time, Spring, Fall

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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, Autumn, Snow

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

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Fall, Autumn

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

  William Blake

  Daughter, Song, Flower

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.409, Univ of California Press

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• I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

  Thomas Hood

  Fall, Autumn, Fog

  'Ode: Autumn'

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• Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.

  Doug Larson

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

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• The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
  The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Fall, Sunshine

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• October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

  David Gray

  Rain, Fall, Gold

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• Autumn arrives in the early morning.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Fall, Autumn

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

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• Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Snow

  Emily Dickinson (2007). “Questa è la mia lettera al mondo: poesie”, p.62, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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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, Autumn, Nuts

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

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• Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Berries

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

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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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• 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, Autumn, Wind

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

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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, Autumn, Grieving

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

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• Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Time, Fall, Autumn

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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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, Autumn

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

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