13 October Quotes
This is my 134th T13~
1. “I have been younger in October / than in all the months of spring”
- W. S. Merwin, The Love of October
2. “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.”
- Samuel Butler
3. “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. “He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”
- Henry James
5. Every green thing loves to die in bright colors.”
- Henry Ward Beecher
6. “Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”
- Elizabeth Lawrence
7. “Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!”
- Humbert Wolfe
8. “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
9. “Well, it’s a marvelous night for a Moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
‘Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow”
- Van Morrison
10. “In the great silence of my favorite month,
October (the red of maples, the bronze of oaks,
A clear-yellow leaf here and there on birches),
I celebrated the standstill of time.”
- Czeslaw Milosz, All Hallow’s Eve
11. “I want to tell you what hills are like in October
when colors gush down mountainsides
and little streams are freighted with a caravan of leaves…”
– Margaret Walker, October Journey
12. “There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
13. Saved the best for last:
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af
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one
li
ness
- e.e. cummings
Posted in T13 | 41 Comments
October 1st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
8 is my favorite. 13 is clever! took me a minute to figure out!!
you take the raddest pictures ever.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Love the Van Morrison quote….
Does the October scent smell spicy?
October 1st, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Great idea for a T13 – I love e.e. cummings btw…
October 1st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I love Fall too…Happy TT. Great list:)
October 1st, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Re #1: October is a month of Spring.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:08 pm
#5 is my favorite
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October 1st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Oh, you are genius. GENIUS. Every single quote is so lovely & perfect; makes me wish once again that I had fought to have our wedding in October. Sigh.
And that e.e. cummings poem – one of my faves to share with students.
GENIUS, I say. Happy Thursday
October 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I’m early! Here to say:
Autumn Weather
And now they’re falling
like a steady rain
in a storm of color
in late October
October 1st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Nice list. Happy TT!
October 1st, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Genius idea–you need to do a calendar with your poppets–that’s a phenomenal October shot.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
So fun, so cute, your picture! I think it might be my favorite of the poppets – maybe, there’ve been a lot of good ones, but this one comes with a donut, so… bonus! Also just love the quotes. So perfect. ee cummings is amazing and a favorite of mine.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 am
#13 was a good one to save for last
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:38 am
Very interesting list. Happy Thirteening!
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 am
Nice quotes, but I think people are pretending to love fall because it means summer is over and winter is on the way, and they are trying to be brave!
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:41 am
I love #10 the best! Happy Thursday Thirteen!
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:44 am
You’re right–you did save the best for last. It’s a nice variety, though, and all together they really make me feel like fall. Of course, raking up all the leaves in the front yard did that, too. They smell so good, but it’s so much work!
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:11 am
Love 6 and 12….clever 13!~
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 am
I love ee cummings…thanks for sharing the quotes!
Happy TT
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 am
I like the one about green things dying in bright colors.
cool.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 am
October/November are the worst months for me ! I prefer to stay in bed then looking at “green things who love to die in bright colors.”
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Van Morrison!!!! my favorite
Happy October!
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 am
Excellent quotes. I like the first one about feeling young in October. Happy TT!
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
I enjoyed all of these. I need a moon dance.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 am
Those are some great quotes. Thank you for sharing!
Happy TT!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am
I love Autumn!! Happy TT
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
well well look at you photography and now quoting poetry and prose…..stellar!
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Wow, this was the best TT list you’ve ever written amazing! Inspiring and so darn seasonal!
Hey are you watching the debate tonight? I’m working on snacks for the evening now…perhaps I should include a lot of booze huh? I am a nervous wreck! This is part of my education on U.S. history.
Here is my TT list:
http://gnosticminx.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-bob-dylan-song-influenced-design.html
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
MOONDANCE yeah baby!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
AWESOME TT – Wow. I had no idea that there were so many October quotes. And how inspirational!
Well done Janet!
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I adore colored frosting and sprinkles.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Good list. I particularly like #6 and #9.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Excellent quotes! Not sure I can choose a favorite, but I’ve always been a Cummings fan.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
October is like April:
Changing Time.
- TorAa
I’m born in April – my mother and also my only daughter in October
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
No change here even if it’s October!
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Here’s another October quote for you: ‘Can’t believe I’m already freezing my ass off!’- Fleur de Lisa.
OK, so I’m not the Poet Laureate. LOL
That shot is so great that it almost makes me like the fall some more. That donut looks delicious.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Wonderfully poetic Thursday Thirteen. I am bookmarking this post as I’ll be back to steal…er, borrow…some of these wonderful quotes. And I’ll happily have Van Morrison bopping around in my head all night competing with the voice of Diane Lane saying, “Czeslaw Milosz, I like him”. Not at all a bad thing…rrrowr!!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Great quotes! Someone might think Fall & Halloween is your favorite season and holiday!
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 am
Ahhh…love that Van Morrison song. Even more….I love the look of that fantabulous donut !! Hand it over!!
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Mmmm… doughnut…
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I love quotes! I especially like #5, 11, and I really, really love e.e. cummings! Thanks for these!
October 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Great quotes! I did the same thing on my blog.