Best Autumn Wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”

Mind Long Past Water Hours Fields Wind Casts Forests Wheels Autumn Spells Grind Mills Binding Long Day Reaper Autumn Wind

Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

Source: Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

“In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.”

World Poverty Wind Universal Philosophical Philosopher Fats Autumn Perpetual Autumn Wind

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.”

Faces Song Fun Sea Wind Weather Hats Silver Autumn Beaten Pirate Raiders Just For Fun Autumn Wind Pillaging

Author:Steve Sabol

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”

Source: Hemingway's Paris

“Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.”

Years Light Tree Wind Cold Died Branches Fall Autumn Fall Season Autumn Love Moveable Feast Autumn Wind Bare Branches

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

“Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.”

Wind Woods Autumn Faded Fall Autumn Fall Season Autumn Season Autumn Wind

Author:William Wordsworth

“Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.”

Fall Black Land Wind Autumn Flats Lap Corn Silk Spears Fall Season Falling Off Hangers October And Fall Autumn Wind Leaves In The Wind

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.”

Moving Fall Half Tree Wind Repeats Autumn You Like It Cripples Dead Trees Autumn Wind Leaves In The Wind

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.”

Giving Stills War Self Lying Fall Effort Divine Sweet Wind Sorrow Bed Profound Resistance Branches Autumn Warmth Comforting Odor Moaning Autumn Wind

Book:Pleasures and days: and other writings

Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings

“Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”

Source: P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains

“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.”

Trying Fall Half Tree Wind Arguing Autumn Limbs Corn November Stalking Swirls Fall Season November Poems Whisk Autumn Wind Detaining

Author:Aldo Leopold

“When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.”

Feels Fall Speak Wind Cold Lips Autumn Autumn Wind

Book:Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers

Source: Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers

“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.”

Years Fall Sadness Wind Woods Naked Brown Autumn Melancholy November Meadows Saddest Wailing Autumn Days Sears Autumn Wind

Author:William C. Bryant

“January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is long And cold is strong In bleak December.”

Source: Rossetti: Poems

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”

Thinking Long Fall Inspiring Known Tree Sky Wind Rain Autumn Fall Autumn Autumn Leaves Falling Leaves Autumn Inspirational Autumn Wind Wind In The Trees Leaves In The Wind

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us.”

Feels Years Long Moments Home Body Light Fall Walks Air Middle Wind Invisible Shoulders Autumn Touching Pauses Sweeping Long Walks Autumn Wind

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won.”

Fun Laughing Wind Down And Autumn Upside Down Raiders Just For Fun Autumn Wind Pillaging

Author:Steve Sabol

“Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.”

Dies Wind Sorrow Rain Autumn Autumn Wind

Author:Qiu Jin

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