Autumnal Quotes That I Love...

In my previous post, I extolled the joy that autumn is here. I love to bundle up on weekends and read...anything.
Many times, I enjoy just reading quotes of famous authors, poets and speakers.
Tonight, I was doing just that and wanted to share some of my favorite quotes that pertain to the wonderful season of Autumn.
I hope you enjoy these selections and in reading them start to celebrate the wonderful harvest season!

"Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus

"the most wasted of all days is one without laughter" -e.e. cummings

“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees.” -C.S. Lewis

“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.” -William Cullen Bryant

“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” - Faith Baldwin

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” -Emily Bronte

“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.” -Dorothy Parker

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” -Elizabeth Bowen

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” -Stanley Horowitz

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

“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.” and also "Autumn's the mellow time. -William Allingham

"No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one Autumnal face." -John Donne

"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

"falling leaves hide the path so quietly..." -John Bailey

"October is a symphony of permanence and change." -Bonaro W. Overstreet

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn." -Elizabeth Lawrence

...and I will close with an Autumn poem...

"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

I encourage you to find the brisk, fresh, beauty that lies in this beautiful, bountiful season!
Don't be sad because summer is over! There's the warm, earthy, feeling that comes with Autumn that "feels like gathering close to HOME!"

Till next time!
Annie

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