Leafy Poems and Quotes

Autumn Leafy Poems

Autumn, by Rainer Maria Rilke

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,

as if orchards were dying high in space.

Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."

And tonight the heavy earth is falling

away from all other stars in the loneliness.

We're all falling. This hand here is falling.

And look at the other one. It's in them all.

And yet there is Someone, whose hands

infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Autumn, by Andrea Gibson

is the hardest season.
The leaves are all falling
and they’re falling
like they’re falling
in love with the ground.

And some shorter quotes...

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” - Rabindranath Tagore

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” - Albert Camus

“There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.” - Mehmet Murat ildan