Summer Days Quotes - Page 2

• The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Night, Perfection

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.358, Vintage

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• O summer day beside the joyous sea!
  O summer day so wonderful and white,
  So full of gladness and so full of pain!
  Forever and forever shalt thou be
  To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
  To some the landmark of a new domain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Pain, July

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.140

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• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Time, Spring

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

  Russell Baker

  Summer, Nature, Suffering

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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• All labours draw hame at even,
  And can to others say,
  "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,
  Whilk sent this summer day."

  Alexander Hume

  Summer, July, Heaven

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Art, Love You

  Sonnet 18

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• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
  All on a summer day:
  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
  And took them quite away!

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Queens, Heart

  1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.11,'Who Stole the Tarts?'.

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• In winter I get up at night
  And dress by yellow candle-light.
  In summer quite the other way
  I have to go to bed by day.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Winter, Night

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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• You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence...

  Scott Neustadter

  Summer, Simple, Events

  "500 Days of Summer". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.

  Scott Neustadter

  Summer, Memories, Impact

  "500 Days of Summer". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

  Jeannette Walls

  Summer, Light, Each Day

  FaceBook post by Jeannette Walls from Jun 22, 2015

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• . . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Wealth, Rich

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

  Bertrand Russell

  Summer, Moving, Men

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Dreams and Facts"

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• O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Taken

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Peacefully
  The quiet stars came out, one after one;
  The holy twilight fell upon the sea,
  The summer day was done.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Stars, Twilight

  Celia Thaxter (1872). “Poems”, p.51

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• Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.

  Rachel Vincent

  Summer, Air, Hot

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Lose”, p.39, Harlequin

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• We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.

  Max Beckmann

  Summer, Spring, Grief

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• I let my summer days pass idly on.

  George Arnold

  Summer

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.26

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
  Holds up each summer day and shakes
  It out suspiciously, lest swarms
  Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.

  Philip Larkin

  Summer, Mother, Hate

  Philip Larkin, “Mother, Summer, I”

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• One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Country, Wall

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• Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

  L. Neil Smith

  Summer, Men, Intelligent

  "Merchants of Fear". Speech to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

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• My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Summer, Moving

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• The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

  Bear Bryant

  Summer, Twilight, Office

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