Autumn Has Arrived: To Celebrate, Here’s a Pick of our Favourite Literary Quotes About Autumn

September 25, 2015

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With Autumn comes the reunions with hidden-away jumpers, the re-embracing of hearty soups and stews, and a satisfying crunch of frost underfoot. To celebrate the start of the season, we have selected some of our favourite literary Autumnal quotes!

• “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” L.M Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

• “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

• “Every leaf speaks bliss to me / Fluttering from the Autumn tree.” Emily Bronte, Fall, Leaves, Fall

• “Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn–that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness–that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” Jane Austen, Persuasion.

• “Around and around the house the leaves fall thick—but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. Let the gardener sweep and sweep the turf as he will, and press the leaves into full barrows, and wheel them off, still they lie ankle-deep.” Charles Dickens, Bleak House

• “It was October again… a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain — amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

• “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

• “There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre 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.

• “I loved Autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to put there just for the beauty of it.” Lee Maynard.

• “Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people’s breath in the air. There was even something to look forward to when school started ― renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. Fall was hot supper time with everything to eat one missed in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it.” Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

What are your favourite things about Autumn, and do you have a favourite Autumnal quote? We’d love to hear it at Kings Tutors!

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