Autumn Quote by Carl Sandburg

“When the windows like the jackal’s eye and desire pierce the dawn, silken windlasses lift me up to suburban footbridges. I summon a girl…

— André Breton

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the…

— Princess Shikishi

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps…

— Ezra Pound

“Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below…

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain…

— Francis Ledwidge

Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent…

— Siegfried Sassoon

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on…

— John Keats

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow…

— Thomas Hood

“The shadows of leaves fall upon their arms, as they spread the branches apart, but their shoulders are in the sun. The skin of…

— Ayn Rand