Cutting Quote by Steven Millhauser

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of…

— Charles Baudelaire

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses…

— James Joyce

But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Pedaling down the maple lined drive, quicksilver temper ebbed, her resilient spirits were lifted with the beauty of the day. The valley was stirring…

— Nora Roberts

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon,…

— Stephen Leacock

“Fall" Fall, falling, fallen. That’s the way the season Changes its tense in the long-haired maples That dot the road; the veiny hand-shaped leaves…

— Edward Hirsch

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to…

— John Burroughs

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

— John McCrae

By night we lingered on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o'er the sky The silvery haze of…

— Alfred Tennyson

When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining…

— Maurice Thompson

“we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all…

— Jack Kerouac

Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two…

— Alan Sillitoe