Autumn Quote by Donna Lynn Hope

“Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“How may one describe enchantment? As he sang, his countenance softened, and without benefit of costume or any other artifice of the stage, the…

— Debra Dean

“...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I loved the sensual pleasures of being outside, the smell of it, the feel of the earth under my fingers, the satisfaction of seeing…

— Jojo Moyes

“We had the same sensitivity to beautiful things, the same need to enjoy them, the same need to search for the right words to…

— Elena Ferrante

“There were no words that could convey what she had so recently discovered. That each instant was an eternity, each breath a whole life;…

— Muriel Maufroy

“…especially the young ones, come into the canyon for the first time, quiet as deer, some of them, coming to your hand for salt:…

— Andrew Holleran

“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“All these stories present the knife of insight, the flame of the passionate life, the breath to speak what one knows, the courage to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“…Your hands bring a breath of inviolable distances as elusive as ideas. And the ambiguous sway of the moon, of the gentlest, if you…

— Giuseppe Ungaretti

“I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“it was a beauty fire, it contained soul, the sides of sunshine mountains, hot streams of smiling fish, warm stockings smelling a bit like…

— Charles Bukowski