Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting... (original) (raw)

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all."
- Stanley Horowitz
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"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"
- Humbert Wolfe
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"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus
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"No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face."
- John Donne
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"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."
- A Children's Song of the 1880's
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"Listen ...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees
And fall."
- Adelaide Crapsey, 1878-1914, November Night
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"I love fall! Fall is exciting.
It's apples and cider.
It's an airborne spider.
It's pumpkins in bins.
It's burrs on dog's chins.
It's wind blowing leaves.
It's chilly red knees.
It's nuts on the ground.
It's a crisp dry sound.
It's green leaves turning
And the smell of them burning.
It's clouds in the sky.
It's fall. That's why...
I love fall."
- Author Unknown
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"By all these lovely tokens
September days are here
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer."
- Author Unknown
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"October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came-
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band."
- George Cooper, October's Party
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A September to remember.
An October full of splendor.
A November to treasure.
- La Prevenchere, Brittany, France, Entertaining Angels
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"Through the crisp, swirling launch of our recall
Memories smile at yesterday's replay
September guides us gently into Fall
When woods begin to hear chill winter's call."
- M. Jo Taylor, Autumn Poems
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