Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

— George Eliot

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we…

— Samuel Butler

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile." [ Indian Summer ]”

— John Howard Bryant

The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold… I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands,…

— Johnny Mercer

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

— Henry Beston

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of…

— Denis Waitley

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It happened in the autumn of the year, when murder feels at home, because so many other things are dying.”

— Phillip DePoy

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

— Sharon Kay Penman

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…

— William Blake

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you…

— Mark Van Doren

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

— Doug Larson

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

— John Keats