The Quotable Autumn

The glass half empty: "The  foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and  there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a  beauty who has seen one season too many."  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The glass half-full: "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."  ~Albert Camus

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were  a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." ~George  Eliot

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of  autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree;  she walks the sodden pasture lane." ~Robert  Frost

"Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze." ~Emily Dickinson

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the
hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from  the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.” ~Ray  Bradbury