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Quotes About Autumn

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~ John Muir
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.
~ Kyffin Williams
Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
~ Saul Williams
You must remain. I must depart.Two autumns falling in the heart.
~ Buson
The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.
~ William Allingham
O autumn, laden with fruit, and stain'd With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof, there thou mayst 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 fruits and flowers.
~ William Blake
There is no season such delight can bring As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
~ William Browne
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 Cullen Bryant
Autumn... the year's last, loveliest smile.
~ William Cullen Bryant
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
~ William Cullen Bryant
Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
~ William Gass
it strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September's end and fell like an early leaf.
~ William H. Gass
Nurse Dennison's husband, conventionally true to the family tradition of nausea, burning throat, and convulsions, had passed on in the autumn of 1951, with, of course, the conventional policies on his life.
~ William March
They came silently as ghosts themselves, swept along like leaves being scattered about them in the scurrying east wind. Yet their running forms seemed carved out by the wild landscape, in the natural facts of evolution, so they were almost perfectly camouflaged, shielded by the deepening colors of autumn change.
~ David Clement-Davies
Autumn Begins Autumn begins unnoticed. Nights slowly lengthen, and little by little, clear winds turn colder and colder, summer's blaze giving way. My thatch hut grows still. At the bottom stair, in bunchgrass, lit dew shimmers. We
~ David Hinton
8th Moon, 17th Night: Facing the Moon The autumn moon is still round tonight. In this river village, isolate old wanderer Hoisting blinds, I return to its brilliance, And propped on a cane, follow it further: Radiance rousing hidden dragons, bright Scatters of birds aflutter. Thatched study Incandescent, I trust to this orange grove Ablaze: clear dew aching with fresh light. Tu Fu
~ David Hinton
Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.
~ David James Duncan
In autumn, treat fallen leaves with respect.
~ David L. Hough
I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.
~ Lee Maynard
The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.
~ Austin O'Malley
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
~ Cyril Connolly
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
~ Langston Hughes
Thank you leaf blowers, for making me look like the world's lamest Ghostbuster. I ain't afraid of no leaves.
~ Jimmy Fallon, Thank You Notes