He is outside of everything and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky meadow.

 —Henry James

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

 —Robert Browning

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark dates of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

 —Robert Frost

The teeming autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lord’s decease.

 —William Shakespeare

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face.

 —John Donne

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

 —Emily Dickinson

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

 —P.D. James

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

 —Edwin Way Teale

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.

 —Stanley Horowitz

Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.

—William Cullen Bryant

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

—Emily Bronte

Summer ends and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

 —Hal Borland

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where fruits were jewels.

 —Charles Dickens