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September 22, 2013 By Meg Waite Clayton

6 Literary Quotes & a Bouquet of Newly-Sharpened Pencils on this 1st Day of Autumn

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”
PencilBouquet“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

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Meg Waite Clayton


Meg Waite Clayton is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of eight novels, including the Good Morning America Buzz pick and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS, the National Jewish Book Award finalist THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, the Langum-Prize honored THE RACE FOR PARIS, and THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS, one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. Her novels have been published in 23 languages. She has also written more than 100 pieces for major newspapers, magazines, and public radio, mentors in the OpEd Project, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the California bar. megwaiteclayton.com

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