Autumn quotes

Autumn

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Autumn

"Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire."

Believe Memories Autumn
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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
Autumn

"anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did."

Spring Summer Autumn
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Autumn

"Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves."

Fall Death Autumn
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Autumn

"Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life."

Age Autumn Aging
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Autumn

"There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies."

Light Fall Autumn
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Autumn

"The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind."

Past Summer Autumn
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Autumn

"I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}"

Long Forgiving Autumn
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Autumn

"Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.' Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn}"

Kissing Cheer Autumn
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Conrad Aiken Poet, Novelist
Autumn

"Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green light falls on the goblin fountain Where hesitant lovers meet and pass. They laugh in the moonlight, touching hands, They move like leaves on the wind ... I remember an autumn night like this, And not so long ago, When other lovers were blown like leaves, Before the coming of snow."

Moving Fall Autumn
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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer
Autumn

"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?"

Men Book Autumn
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Ali Smith Author
Autumn

"Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer."

Summer Sunday Autumn
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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
Autumn

"He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom."

Nature Freedom Autumn
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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Autumn

"It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when it comes with its will-to-change and shatters the much too ready-made, self-satisfied and really almost bourgeois-complacent image of summer."

Spring Summer Autumn
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