“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace. As I have seen in one autumnal face”
- John Donne
"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."
- Elizabeth Lawrence
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the autumn tree.”
- Emily Bronte
“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
- Carol Bishop Hipps
“Besides the autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the haze.”
- Emily Dickinson
“October is a symphony of permanence and change.”
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
- Stanley Horowitz
"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."
- William Cullen Bryant
“I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November."
- Rose G. Kingsley
