A one-month season

“Sunny Autumn Day,’’ by George Inness (1825-1894), American landscape painter

“The color of September; smouldering gold, The moon goes toward the mountains and grows old.”

— Frances Frost

“September is more than a month, really; it is a season, an achievement in itself. It begins with August's leftovers and it ends with October's preparations...”

— Hal Borland

“That time of year, you know, when the summer, beginning to sadden, Full-mooned and silver-misted, glides from the heart of September, Mourned by desolate crickets, and iterant grasshoppers, crying.”

— Conrad Aiken