Daily quote by Autumn

• It was autumn, and he always liked autumn. Something about early autumn, when the leaves began to flee before a northern breeze and the days shortened, gave an extra edge to existence.
  • Brian Aldiss, Steppenpferd, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best SF 6, p. 310 (Originally published in Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, February 2000)
• falling leaves
  hide the path
  so quietly
  • John Bailey, Autumn, a haiku year, 2001.
• Earth's crammed with heaven,
  And every common bush afire with God;
  And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
  The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book VII.
• What does winter or autumn or spring or summer know of memory. They know nothing of memory. They know that seasons pass and return. They know that they are seasons. That they are time. And they know how to affirm themselves. And they know how to impose themselves. And they know how to maintain themselves. What does autumn know of summer. What sorrows do seasons have. None hate. None love. They just pass.
  • Giannina Braschi, Empire of Dreams (1988)
• If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
  • Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure (Thanksgiving, 1992).
• The mellow autumn came, and with it came
  The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.
  The corn is cut, the manor full of game;
  The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats
  In russet jacket;—lynx-like is his aim;
  Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats.
  Ah, nutbrown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants!
  And ah, ye poachers!—'Tis no sport for peasants.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XIII, Stanza 75.
• Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
  • Albert Camus, as quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126.
• 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, October's Party.
• Friends are like the autumn, every year they leaving.
  • DaBaby, in "Enemies", by Post Malone, Hollywood's Bleeding (2019)