Autumn Quotes
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.
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.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Autumn arrives in the early morning, but
spring at the close of a winter day.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring,
you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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.
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays.
We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring
of life and the fruits of its Autumn.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the
bone structure of the landscape -- the
loneliness of it -- the dead feeling of
winter. Something waits beneath it --
the whole story doesn't show.
Autumn is a second spring
when every leaf's a flower.
No spring nor summer beauty hath such
grace as I have seen in one autumnal face
For man, autumn is a time of harvest,
of gathering together. For nature, it is a time
of sowing, of scattering abroad.
O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
The smoke of frankincense
earth transcends.
On the charcoal campfire
below its smokerise
the steam from
the pot of berry tea
upcurls.
These 3 streams entwine into trinity....
while from the windswept willowwoods
upwings a wren.
Dry leaves upon the wall, Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape, A single frosted cluster on the grape Still hangs--and that is all.
When shrieked The bleak November winds, and smote the woods, And the brown fields were herbless, and the shades That met above the merry rivulet Were spoiled, I sought, I loved them still; they seemed Like old companions in adversity.