October And Fall Quotes:

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

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

topic: Morning, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Winter Morning

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

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

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

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

- Thomas Wolfe

topic: Summer, Fall, Sadness, Sharpness, 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

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

- Backseat Goodbye

topic: Fall, Autumn, Years, October And Fall, Plant A Tree

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

- William Cowper

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

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, p. 812

topic: Fall, Autumn, Snow, October And 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

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

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

- Doug Larson

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

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Sweet, Fall, Sunshine, October And Fall

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

- David Gray

topic: Rain, Fall, Gold, October And Fall

Autumn arrives in the early morning.

- Elizabeth Bowen

source: 'The Death of the Heart' (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

topic: Morning, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Winter To Spring

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

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

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

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

- Carl Sandburg

source: Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Fall, Autumn, Wind, October And Fall, Leaves In The Wind

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

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

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag

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

When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Autumn, Space, Frost, 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

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

- Remy de Gourmont

topic: Sweet, Nature, Autumn, October And Fall, Fall Season

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

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 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

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

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

- Albert Camus

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

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

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Nature, Feelings, May, October And 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

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Autumn, World, October, October And Fall, Autumn 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 arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

- Elizabeth Bowen

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

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

- Humbert Wolfe

source: Humbert Wolfe (1936). “P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains”, London : Cassell

topic: Summer, Autumn, Air, October And Fall, Leaves In The Wind

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

October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.178, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Fall, Twilight, Sunset, October And Fall

October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

- Rainbow Rowell

topic: Autumn, Nurse, Grace, Candy Bar, October And Fall

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