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 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.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho I think autumn can teach us a lot about love. About how muh beauty can be hidden in layers of change.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Autumn sheds the leaves like tear drops.
Marie-Kristin HofmannMarie-Kristin Hofmann Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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