"There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn."

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Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

— Archibald MacLeish