Autumn Poetry & Quotes

In the spirit of Autumn, I've compiled some seasonal quotes and poetry.  Enjoy!

"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 saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand, shadowless like Silence, listening To Silence."

- Thomas Hood

"Just before the death of flowers,
And before they are buried in snow,
There comes a festival season
When nature is all aglow."
- Author Unknown

"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

"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

"She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last."
- Willa Cather

"The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide.
The russet woods stood ripe to be stripped, but were yet full of leaf.
The purple of heath-bloom, faded but not withered, tinged the hills...
Fieldhead gardens bore the seal of gentle decay; ... its time of
flowers and even of fruit was over."
- Charlotte Brontë

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."
- Elizabeth Lawrence

"October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter."
- Nova Bair