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“Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.”

Knows Years Moving Fall Summer Spring Winter Autumn

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.”

Men Has Beens Done Beautiful Fall Process Natural Color Summer Fruit Finished Surrender Offering Decay Splendid Frost Service To God

Author:Tryon Edwards

“When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”

Suffering Fall Heard Crime Cry Summer Rain Invisible Unendurable

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.”

Body Joy Fall Sides Grief Mystery Fields Ready Summer Glory Rose Lifetime Fishes Seeds Boat Shock Sand Silver Willingness Pale Leafs Submission Unfathomable

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.”

Kind Persons Facts Home Beautiful Faces Young Certain Fall Late Summer Ugly Witch Profile Young Ladies

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day.”

Hard Beautiful Fall Summer Falling In Love Seattle Pacific Northwest

Author:Robert Spector

“Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.”

“Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany

“Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.”

Kind Different Hard Fall Lines Vision Summer Spring Seasons Eternity Winter Track Stuck Repeats Los Angeles Blur Spring Summer Fall And Winter

Author:Kris Kidd

“The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.”

Men Firsts Long Fall Heaven Gone Clear Cold Summer Died Rose Woods Golden Hills Autumn Yellow Long Ago Violet Plague Brooks Brightness Sunflower Asters

Author:William C. Bryant

“The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.”

Long Song Fall Missing Masters Summer Shadow Sunset Weary August Cattle

Book:Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems

Source: Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.”

Fall Summer Spring Winter California

Author:Inez Haynes Irwin

“The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.”

Men Heart Long Night Fall White Trouble Streets Fields Summer Long Time Horse Winter Snow Verses Rolling Severe One Night Meadows Ballads White Horse Rolling Over

Book:The Peaceable Kingdom

Source: The Peaceable Kingdom

“Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.”

“I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.”

Years Children School Fall Cities Summer Shoes Woods Shops Wild Child

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.”

“In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.”

“I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.”

Writing Home Fall Community Creative Bears Summer Spring Winter Commit Sequence Creative Life Hibernation

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.”

Feels Fall Sadness Summer Smell Smoke Unexpected Autumn Fades Thrill October Departure Nervousness Fall Autumn Fall Season Elation Autumn Season Sharpness October And Fall Summer To Fall

Author:Thomas Wolfe

“I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap. You don't know if you're watching a cartoon or something that's real. And I didn't want to fall into that trap. I really thought there was a way to use a lot of these old techniques to do some new and really neat stuff.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Feels Looks Real Use Bigs Film Fall Stuff Effects Summer Technique Dependent Sci Fi Traps Crap Cartoon Neat Cgi Sci Fi Film

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“I don't think you necessarily have to put away your summer closet to go into fall. You can incorporate the fall pieces into your normal summer wardrobe.”

Thinking Fall Pieces Normal Summer Closets Wardrobe

Author:Elsa Hosk

“We have had some great shows this summer, the Jammin Against the Darkness event was pretty incredible and it was good to see everyone at the festivals. Today we head to South Dakota for the start of the tour with Falling Up, The Wedding and Mainstay.”

Shows Today Fall Darkness Events Summer South Incredibles Festivals Dakota South Dakota

Author:John Reuben Zappin

“Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.”

Way Feels Doe Fall Boys Paper Summer Pens Discouraging Death Coming

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“The Russians were all really accommodating, and that made it really special. To be allowed in Catherine's Summer Palace...Lily [James] and I have this scene where we fall in love and we waltz up and down this enormous gold hall with thousands of candles and a live orchestra and 300 Russian extras. To do those scenes in situ really meant it was a once-in-a-lifetime job.”

Made Jobs Fall Special Scene Summer Gold Lifetime Falling In Love Enormous Made It Extras Halls Candle Orchestra Up And Down Palaces Really Mean Lilies Once In A Lifetime Waltz

Author:James Norton

“You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.”

Trying Years Fall Black Effort Race Periods Summer Shots Relation Police Chiefs Rebellion Progressive Falling Apart Variation Race Relations Riot Mayors Detroit Ferguson Unraveling

Author:David Maraniss

“Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I found my work self-referential; it was getting to be rock songs about a rock singer who lived a rock life on the rock road, and I was starting to wonder what I would be like to rent my own apartment, what it would be like to have a checkbook.”

Wells Self Would Be Song Fall Found My Own Behinds Wonder Rocks Summer Spring Starting East Singers Apartment Zombie Rock Song

Author:Iggy Pop

“Have you ever noticed the perfection of nature? The seasons and how one changes into the next, the falling leaves, composting soil, rains, new seedlings, sunshine, growth, blossoms, etc. Grass grows, deer eats grass, lion eats deer, deer population is stabilized so there is grass for other animals; sunrise and sunset, boy and girl, winter and summer.”

Fall Girl Next Grows Growth Animal Boys Summer Rain Perfection Seasons Winter Population Grass Soil Sunset Etc Sunshine Lions Sunrise Deer Boy And Girl Sunrise And Sunset Falling Leaves Seedlings

Author:Bryan Kest

“We met in the summer or fall of 2001. I had never met Kate [DiCamillo], though I'd heard her name, and I think she knew of me too. We were laughing within a few minutes, I mean really, furiously, laughing. So we were off to a good start.”

Thinking Mean Fall Names Laughing Heard Minutes Mets Summer Kate

Author:Alison McGhee

“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.”

Thinking Giving Two Together Fall Three Easy Hours Week Figures Objects Mets Summer Decided Working Together Three Times Sock Kate

Author:Alison McGhee

“I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.”

Knows Fall Next Summer Spring Preaching

Author:Max Lucado

“Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any kind of upward path again. Our vocabulary is different. We Christians speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus. But unfortunately, we've projected it all onto Jesus and it didn't become a life agenda for the rest of us.”

Kind Different Christian Fall Jesus Speak Path Example Summer Spring Winter Agendas Resurrection Vocabulary Prelude Jesus Resurrection

Author:Richard Rohr

“Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.”

Beautiful Night Fall Perfect Summer Spring Longing Forests Get Away Autumn Vacation Unreal Campfire

Book:Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories

Source: Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories

“I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.”

Writing Home Fall Community Creative Quiet Summer Spring Winter Commit Creative Life Quiet Place

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.”

Fall Universe Summer Spring Winter Refuse

Author:Gary Zukav

“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”

Source: Marjorie Daw and Other People

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.”

Firsts Ends Suffering Fall Evil Silence Heard Crime Cry Horror Thousand Summer Hundred First Time Rain Spread Invisible Tyranny Tyrants Blanket Unendurable Butchery

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.”

Soul Pain Remember Night Fall Passion Pleasure Emotion Loneliness Summer Rain Winter Mood Snow Forests Grieving Branches Divinity Autumn Wet Destined Elation Autumn Nights

Book:Harmonium

Source: Harmonium

“- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.”

Wells Long Fall Growth Summer Spring Roots Seasons Winter Fall And Winter

Book:Being There

Source: Being There

“With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color in careful, gentle change. Winter brews into faithful strength, beauty in pure white. And then comes you. You are all that Nature offers, a blessing, a gift.. You are the fifth season.”

Kind Fall Energy Growth White Sun Color Blessing Offers Pure Summer Spring Seasons Green Endure Winter Careful Warm Gentle Faithful Canvas New Life Fifth

Book:The Wednesday Letters: A Novel

Source: The Wednesday Letters: A Novel

“That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the horizon and a charged warm wind smelling of dust announced a powerful summer storm. When I reached the station I noticed the first few drops, shiny and heavy, like coins falling from heaven...Night seemed to fall suddenly, interrupted only by the lightning now bursting over the city, leaving a trail of noise and fury.”

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.”

Source: The Moviegoer

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.”

Ifs Hands Fall New York Summer Fruit Afternoon Sensuous I Love New York Gatsby Love

Book:F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'

“It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.”

Stills Fall Stars Darkness Alive Ready Summer Not Ready Standstill

Author:Tove Jansson

“Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”

Song Fall Summer Bird Window Autumn Yellow Sigh Fly Away Yellow Leaves

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver of an old man's voice. 'Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn...' He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. 'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.”

Men Want Dies Fall Strong Voice Trouble Tree Ready Months Letting Go Summer Spring Roots Tired Autumn Old Man Coming Back Ready To Die

Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.”

Beautiful Fall Loss Summer Spring Skins Winter

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons