Henry James on autumn
Henry James112 quotes“His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”
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Henry JamesHenry James She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
Henry JamesHenry James A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry JamesHenry James To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
Henry JamesHenry James She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry JamesHenry James You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
Henry JamesHenry James It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry JamesHenry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry JamesHenry James One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry JamesHenry James Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
Henry JamesHenry James The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson Autumn nights carry the most colourful dreams through the empty woods.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Let autumn be proof that change is a beautiful thing even tho it can be hard to see at first.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura I am learning to let go like autumn. I am learning to grow like spring.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura On bitter autumn nights your name lies at the tip of my tongue, as silent memories of us come to haunt me.
Court YoungCourt Young Our love was of the autumn- heady, golden and pure. But limited, always doomed to expire.
David JonesDavid Jones Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly.
Melissa LunaMelissa Luna
