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13 Of The Best Literary Quotes About Autumn

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

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Oct 24, 2016

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13 Of The Best Literary Quotes About Autumn

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The world can express beauty in many ways, but my two favorite ways by far are through literature and the season of autumn. Words have the power to paint pictures in our heads, and although those are scenes that a camera lens cannot quite capture, they can come pretty close. Take a look at the following autumn-related quotes from authors, poets and intellectuals, and fall in love with the season of autumn.

1. "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

- L.A. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

2. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

- Albert Camus

3. "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons."

- Jim Bishop

4. "Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

- Rémy de Gourmon

5. “I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.”

- Wendy Delsol, Stork

6. “It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”

- Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

7. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

- Samuel Butler

8. “The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”

- Ray Bradbury,Fahrenheit 451

9. “Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

[Indian Summer]”
- William Cullen Bryant

10. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

11. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

- Joe L. Wheeler

12. "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

13. "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

[The Autumnal]
- John Donne (The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose)

Which was your favorite quote? Is it missing from the list?

All quotes were retrieved from Goodreads

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13 Of The Best Literary Quotes About Autumn

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

1. "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

2. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

3. "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons."

4. "Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

5. “I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.”

6. “It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”

7. “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

8. “The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”

9. “Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

10. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

11. “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

12. "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."

13. "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

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Feeling Lost During Syllabus Week? You're Not Alone!

The professor starts to go over something more than the syllabus

You get homework assigned on the first day of class

There are multiple group projects on the syllabus

You learn attendance is mandatory and will be taken every class

Professor starts chatting about their personal life and what inspired them to teach this class

Participation is mandatory and you have to play "icebreaker games"

Everybody is going out because its 'syllabus week' but you're laying in bed watching Grey's Anatomy

Looking outside anytime past 8 PM every night of this week

Nobody actually has any idea what's happening this entire week

Syllabus week is over and you realize you actually have to try now...or not

Chips, apple or bread?

1. You own so many pairs of khaki pants you don’t even know what to do with them

2. Chips, apple or bread is probably your most repeated phrase

3. Taking bakery items with you out to parties was a must

4. Taking bakery items home to your parents was also a must (if you wanted to live)

5. Your friends expected you to give them free stuff

6. Being put on dishes made you question humanity

7. You saw everyone and their mother (especially their mothers)

8. Working the opening shift was actually the worst thing to ever happen to you

9. Being able to predict what people would order

10. Making coffee was your least favorite thing to do

11.Being put on the dining room was the absolute WORST

12. Secretly putting in your Panera card number when other people didn’t have them or want them.

13. You would still come in on days you weren’t working to take advantage of your discount

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3. Ask people's pronouns when you meet them.

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6. Stop using the term 'preferred pronouns'.

7. Stop using a transgender or non-binary person's dead name.

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