Air Quote by Walter Scott

“Instead of diving into the shadows of the forest, he was a tawny lightning bolt striking the edge of a clearing that would eventually…

— Elizabeth Lim

“Taut, merry, nervous, expertly mounted, exquisitely clothed, haughty in their bright youth, the chevaliers of France poured from the disheveled clearing. Sunlit, all that…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,-- Dying hectic of leaves…

— Bayard Taylor

“The multicolored leaves were softly glowing against the black sky, creating an untimely nocturnal rainbow which scattered its spectral tints everywhere and dyed the…

— Thomas Ligotti

“But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways I cannot…

— John Keats

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered…

— James Carlos Blake

“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…

— Ode to the West Wind

“Nature has embellish'd rare as May Its dew-gemm'd primroses glitter'd up, To show pride from each budding weed, Since from skies naught a ray…

— Nithin Purple

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hills…

— William C. Bryant

“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

they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four…

— Toni Morrison

“We were in the autumnlands. Dim as it was, the forest glowed. The golden leaves flashing by blazed like sparks caught in the updraft…

— Margaret Rogerson