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  • Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. -- John Leonard
  • The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. -- Edward Fitzgerald
  • Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. -- William Allingham
  • The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. -- E. B. White
  • Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree. -- Terry Teachout
  • I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there. -- Kent Haruf
  • The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. -- Black Elk
  • Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. -- William Alexander
  • For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible. -- Brittany Howard
  • I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart. -- Tim Blake Nelson
  • Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life turns grey as the leaves fall in Autumn. -- Kieron Shepherd
  • Spring, the snow must go; fall, the leaves can't stay. -- Marty Rubin
  • Some leaves hang on longer but eventually they all fall. -- Marty Rubin
  • When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here. -- Henry Ford
  • You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them. -- Neal Shusterman
  • Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves. -- Gladys Taber
  • Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. -- Chad Sugg
  • Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. -- Chad Sugg
  • When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees -- Edward Young
  • Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water. -- Rumi
  • There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life. -- David Ault
  • Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! -- Andre Gide
  • When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves. -- Sara Teasdale
  • Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall. -- Adelaide Crapsey
  • Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. -- Henry Beston
  • The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods. -- Henry Beston
  • The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods." -- Henry Beston
  • Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune. -- Ming-Dao Deng
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  • You are to me,what wind is to dry leaves.The reason for me to fall,the reason for me to fly. -- Seekerohan
  • As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below. -- Dante Alighieri
  • I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees. -- Arthur Golden
  • The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play. -- Heinrich Heine
  • Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves. -- Carl Sandburg
  • Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. -- Charles Dickens
  • Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination. -- Keiynan Lonsdale
  • 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. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge. -- John Zerzan
  • The OakLive thy Life, Young and old,Like yon oak,Bright in spring, Living gold;Summer-rich Then; and thenAutumn-changedSoberer-hued Gold again.All his leaves Fall'n at length,Look, he stands,Trunk and bough Naked strength. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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