AUTUMN QUOTES
quotations about autumn
Autumn is officially here, bringing a plethora of gorgeously soft knits and luxurious wraps to cocoon yourself in. Fall in love with chic, tailored coats and easy-to-wear trenches. Capes are heroes with oversized and unexpected silhouettes giving a stylish edge. Autumn textures see leather, suede and faux fur making a welcome return. Striking prints are complemented by neutral shades of nude, grey and navy -- monochrome has timeless appeal. The new season's palette comes in sumptuous tones of plum, raspberry and claret and rich hues of cinnamon, russet and terracotta.
MICHIKO HYLANDS
"Fashion: Fall for you", New Zealand Herald, March 6, 2016
After the rush to make the most of the sun in Summer, and before the mad dash of Christmas parties, present-shopping and hail-induced fury in Winter, Autumn is the relaxed, reassuring period of calm where we all enjoy a few valuable months of steady work, rest and play.
MARK BUTLER
"15 Reasons Why Autumn is Actually the Best Season", Wow 24/7, October 1, 2015
Autumn is no time to lie alone.
MURASAKI SHIKIBU
The Tale of Genji
Lord: it is time. The summer was immense. Let thine shadows upon the sundials fall, and unleash the winds upon the open fields.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
"Autumn Day", The Book of Images
No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE
The Autumnal
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love -- that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit.
GEORGE ELIOT
letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs.
JEROME K. JEROME
"Silhouettes"
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence, for no lonely bird would sing
Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn.
THOMAS HOOD
Ode to Autumn
Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
ALBERT CAMUS
attributed, Visions from Earth
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
American Notebooks, Oct. 10, 1842
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
"Autumn Days"
Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
"Indian Summer"
The autumn comes, a maiden fair
In slenderness and grace,
With nodding rice-stems in her hair
And lilies in her face.
In flowers of grasses she is clad;
And as she moves along,
Birds greet her with their cooing glad
Like bracelets' tinkling song.
KALIDASA
"Autumn"
It's autumn ... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Sons and Lovers
The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"The Heat of Autumn"
You can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
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Autumn is the final trick in nature's year-long magic show: It masks death with a spectacular display of beauty.
KEITH HANSEN
American Motercyclist, Nov. 1982
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came--
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
GEORGE COOPER
October's Party
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The Way of All Flesh
While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.
KAREL CAPEK
The Gardener's Year