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“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” 
― Jim Bishop

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can. 

-Hans Blix

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome. 

-Rowan Williams

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. 

-Nick Cave

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again. 

-Claire Tomalin

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. 

-Jill Dando

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. 

-Sean Bean

“Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.” 

― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.” 

― Sharon Kay Penman, Time and Chance

“Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.” 

― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school. 

-John Sergeant Wise

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. 

-Richard Widmark

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower. 

-Georg Trakl

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. 

-Robert Hass

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn. 

-Orlando Bloom

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games. 

-Adam Gopnik

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling. 

-Gary Weiss

I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning. 

-Natalie Dormer

To Autumn - Poem by William Blake

Autumn, laden with fruit, and stainèd

With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit

Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest,

And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,

And all the daughters of the year shall dance!

Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

`The narrow bud opens her beauties to

The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;

Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and

Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,

Till clust'ring Summer breaks forth into singing,

And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head.

`The spirits of the air live on the smells

Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round

The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.'

Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat;

Then rose, girded himself, and o'er the bleak

Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load. 

Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent - perhaps a dozen or more each year. 

-Joseph Bruchac

Autumn - Poem by William Morris

Laden Autumn here I stand

Worn of heart, and weak of hand:

Nought but rest seems good to me,

Speak the word that sets me free.

AUTUMN (November) - Poem by Walter de la Mare

There is a wind where the rose was, 

Cold rain where sweet grass was, 

And clouds like sheep 

Stream o'er the steep 

Grey skies where the lark was. 

Nought warm where your hand was, 

Nought gold where your hair was, 

But phantom, forlorn, 

Beneath the thorn, 

Your ghost where your face was. 

Cold wind where your voice was, 

Tears, tears where my heart was, 

And ever with me, 

Child, ever with me, 

Silence where hope was.

The Autumn - Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Go, sit upon the lofty hill,

And turn your eyes around,

Where waving woods and waters wild

Do hymn an autumn sound.

The summer sun is faint on them --

The summer flowers depart --

Sit still -- as all transform'd to stone,

Except your musing heart.

How there you sat in summer-time,

May yet be in your mind;

And how you heard the green woods sing

Beneath the freshening wind.

Though the same wind now blows around,

You would its blast recall;

For every breath that stirs the trees,

Doth cause a leaf to fall.

Oh! like that wind, is all the mirth

That flesh and dust impart:

We cannot bear its visitings,

When change is on the heart.

Gay words and jests may make us smile,

When Sorrow is asleep;

But other things must make us smile,

When Sorrow bids us weep!

The dearest hands that clasp our hands, --

Their presence may be o'er;

The dearest voice that meets our ear,

That tone may come no more!

Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth,

Which once refresh'd our mind,

Shall come -- as, on those sighing woods,

The chilling autumn wind.

Hear not the wind -- view not the woods;

Look out o'er vale and hill-

In spring, the sky encircled them --

The sky is round them still.

Come autumn's scathe -- come winter's cold --

Come change -- and human fate!

Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound,

Can ne'er be desolate. 

Autumn Dreams - Poem by Mary Naylor

Grinning pumpkins, falling leaves,

Dancing scarecrows, twirling breeze,

Color, color everywhere,

Autumn dreams are in the air! Autumn is a woman growing old,

Ready to let what is dead go,

Her youthful radiance has faded, and that's sad,

But underneath she discovers a 

spread of colors she didn't know she had. Little children screech and run,

Ghosts and goblins having fun,

Color, color everywhere,

Autumn dreams are in the air! Around her a kaleidoscope of leaves are whirling.

Deep within her visions stir of new life that will be,

A budding, a flowering, a promise unfurling.

Autumn is a woman growing old,

Ready to let what is dead go. Calico kittens, rain falling rat-a-tat-tat,

Big full moon, funny black cats,

Color, color everywhere,

Autumn dreams are in the air! 

Autumn Within - Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is autumn; not without

But within me is the cold.

Youth and spring are all about;

It is I that have grown old.

Birds are darting through the air,

Singing, building without rest;

Life is stirring everywhere,

Save within my lonely breast.

There is silence: the dead leaves

Fall and rustle and are still;

Beats no flail upon the sheaves,

Comes no murmur from the mill.