November Poems Quotes:

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

- Albert Camus

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

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

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

topic: Autumn, October And Fall, Fall Autumn, Autumn Equinox, Autumn Season

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

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

topic: Autumn, Lakes, Air, October And Fall, Crunch

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

- Andrew Wyeth

source: Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

topic: Fall, Winter, Waiting, Winter Days, Winter Months

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

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 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

topic: Distance, Autumn, Men, October And Fall, Ripeness

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

- Edwin Way Teale

source: "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.

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

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

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

topic: Fall, Autumn, Grieving, Maple, October And Fall

All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.

- Ruth Pitter

source: Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

topic: Autumn, Blue, Tree, Fall Season, Prunes

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Time, Morning, Spring, Spring Day, October And Fall

T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather. H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday. A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart. N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember. K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon. S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about. That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.

- Aileen Fisher

topic: Art, Nice, Home, Sight And Sound, November Poems

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

No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.

- Thomas Hood

topic: Flower, Butterfly, Moon, Proper Time, Time Of Day

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

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

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

Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.37, Routledge

topic: Summer, Flower, Fall, Summer To Fall, Waxing

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Horse, Winter, Rivers, November Poems, Sleighs

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

- Thomas Hood

source: 'No!'

topic: Flower, Butterfly, Autumn, Falling Leaves, November Poems

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

The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Fall, Wind, Tree, Swirls, Whisk

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

- Thomas Hood

source: 'Ode: Autumn'

topic: Fall, Autumn, Silence, October And Fall, Forlorn

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Food, Mean, Talking, Wishbones, Inspirational Thanksgiving

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

topic: Fall, Nuts, Rose, Maple, October And Fall

Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin' with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

- Edgar Guest

topic: Song, Prayer, Fun, Fall Season, November Poems

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

- William Browne

source: William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

topic: Summer, Spring, Winter, Spring Poems, Spring Season

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

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

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

- Charles Baudelaire

source: Charles Baudelaire, “Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn)”

topic: Summer, Fall, Autumn, Fall Season, Cobblestone

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

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

topic: Autumn, Snow, Mind, October And Fall, Fall Autumn

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Autumn, Sunshine, Air, October And Fall, Fall Autumn

Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

topic: Song, Fall, Autumn, Summer To Fall, Fall And Winter

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Years, Norway, November, November Poems