On this autumnal equinox – the perfect balance of day and night as the sun dips below the equator and we in the northern hemisphere move into autumn – I thought you might enjoy these six short quotes:
“What’s the autumn? A second spring when every leaf’s a flower. Perhaps it’s the same thing with some hearts; perhaps they’d blossom if you helped them with your patience.”
– Albert Camus, from “The Misunderstanding”
“if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window…
everything carries me to you”
– Pablo Neruda, from “If You Forget Me”
“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, from a Nov. 2, 1841 letter
“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”
– E.E. Cummings, from “a wind has blown the rain away and blown”
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”
– John Donne, from “A Paradox of an Old Woman”
And perhaps my favorite (but then I’m a sucker for a good romantic comedy):
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
– Nora Ephron, from You’ve Got Mail
