Autumn proverbs

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◆ Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

- Leo Tolstoy98

◆ The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

- John Greenleaf Whittier98

◆ The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn't ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.

- Elizabeth Coatsworth98

◆ October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

- Keith Donohue98

◆ It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

- P.D. James98

◆ Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.

- Michelle Zink98

◆ Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

- Charles Nodier98

◆ Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...

- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly98

◆ I met Anne in the autumn... Autumn, that wild season when rural men rack orchard trees with sticks and weep with the desire to kiss faraway Demeter's supple breasts—to set lips to her travel-swollen eyes. They seek goddesses, but I desired only Anne.

- Roman Payne98

◆ It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.

- Sarah Dunn98

◆ There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

- Jonathan Lethem98

◆ An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining...

- Francis Brett Young98

◆ Fall colors are funny. They're so bright and intense and beautiful. It's like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.

- Siobhan Vivian98

◆ Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?

- John B. Tabb98

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

- David Mitchell98