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

topic: Time, Spring, Fall, October And Fall, Equinox

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

source: Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

topic: Inspiring, Summer, Cheer, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

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

topic: Fall, Autumn, Bird, Inspirational Nature, October And Fall

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

- John Donne

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

topic: Beauty, Summer, Spring, Spring Poems, Spring Season

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

- Emily Bronte

source: Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

topic: Fall, Autumn, Tree, Inspirational Tree, Fallen Trees

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

- Robert Browning

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

topic: Sympathy, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Sympathy For A Friend

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

topic: Summer, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

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

- Samuel Butler

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Flower, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Autumn, Years, Lasts, Equinox, Autumn Days

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

topic: Summer, Song, Fall, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

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

source: John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

topic: Friendship, Summer, Running, Gourds, October And Fall

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

- P. D. James

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

topic: Life, Memories, Fall, October And Fall, Fall Season

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

- Albert Camus

topic: Encouraging, Nature, Spring, Inspirational Flower, Spiritual Nature

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

- Henry Beston

topic: Summer, Country, Fall, October And Fall, Leaves In The Wind

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

topic: Fall, Autumn, Fullness Of Life, October And Fall, Fall Autumn

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

- William Allingham

source: William Allingham (1854). “Day and Night Songs”

topic: Fall, Autumn, Fire, Summer To Fall, Grim

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

topic: Summer, Autumn, Night, Moon Night, Summer To Fall

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

topic: Fall, Autumn, Smell, Autumn Equinox, Autumnal Equinox

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

topic: Stars, Loneliness, Fall, Autumnal Equinox

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

- David Letterman

topic: Change, Fun, Fall, Bird Watching, Fall Autumn

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

topic: Love, Beautiful, Rain, Pastures, Dark Days

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Fall, Autumn, Positivity, Summer To Fall, Fall Autumn

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

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

topic: Daughter, Song, Flower, October And Fall, Autumn Equinox

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Spring, Autumn, Looking Forward, October And Fall, Fall And Winter