“Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly.
Grass and trees wither; geese go south.”
Emperor Wu of Han (-156–-87 BC) emperor Wu-Ti
The Autumn Wind 127 BC (translated by Arthur Waley), Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers: Edinburgh, U.K, 2005, p. 930
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“The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,
Indefinitely desolate;
A sea of lead, a sky of slate;
Already autumn in the air, alas!
One stark monotony of stone,
The long hotel, acutely white,
Against the after-sunset light
Withers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.”
Color Studies. At Dieppe (1895).
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