Yellow Floating

I, a light canoe will build me... that shall float upon the river, like a yellow leaf of autumn, like a yellow water lily! ~Hiawatha

Autumn Poets Sing

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

~Emily Dickinson

Golden Autumn Days

Yellow, mellow, ripened days,
Sheltered in a golden coating;
O'er the dreamy, listless haze,
White and dainty cloudlets floating;
Winking at the blushing trees,
And the sombre, furrowed fallow;
Smiling at the airy ease,
Of the southward flying swallow,
Sweet and smiling are thy ways,
Beauteous, golden Autumn days

~Will Carleton

Perfect Memory

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
~P. D. James

Autumnal Face

No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
~John Donne

Autumn Rain

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

Scattering

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~Edwin Way Teale

The Winds

The winds give me
Enough fallen leaves
To make a fire

~Ryokan

Loveliest Smile

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. ~William Cullen Bryant

Impermanence

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
~Zhuangzi

Leaves Turn

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Leaf a Flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

Autumn

Autumn is my favorite season. ~Johnny Kelly

Falling Leaves

falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly

~John Bailey

Successive Autumns

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

Restlessness

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible. ~Sue Grafton

October

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps

Enlightenment

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. ~Satish Kumar

Lack of Friendship

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Ripe

A ripe melon falls by itself. ~Zimbabwean Proverb