Six Quotes to Celebrate Autumn
It's the first day of fall and over on Twitter it's #FolkoreThursday: two of my favorite things! I just love the phrase Autumnal Equinox. It's one of my favorite phrases in the English language; I think it ranks with cellar door.
Anyway, here in Florida we're still sweating over our pumpkin spice lattes, needing all the autumn spirit we can get. Summer lingers into a slightly cooler season that can barely be described as "winter" before plunging back into spring and early summer. Here I've compiled a list of my favorite quotes on autumn:
"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
"All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . ." -Laura Ingalls Wilder
"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." -John Donne
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." -Emily Brontë
This quote by Wordsworth isn't technically about autumn. It's more about how our view of the world changes as we grow older, but it evokes autumn for me all the same:
"I cannot paint
What then I was. The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite: a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm..."
-Wordsworth, Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
And is it horribly pretentious and self-obsessed if I quote my own work? Well, my heroine Landra loves fall as much as I do. Here are a few lines from my novel:
Summer clung to life with sweaty fingers and humid days, chasing away cool weather far into October. In mid-November true autumn came, with misty mornings leading to soft-lit days and early darkness.
